How DNS cache poisoning works
Users of MyEtherWallet, a web app for storing and sending ether and ethereum-based tokens, experienced an DNS hijacking attack that saw users of the service lose around $152k worth of ether -coindesk(24th April, 2018) As a result of the cache poisoning, multiple users were deceived into giving up their key to the wallet before transffering their cryptocurrencies into another digital wallet associated with the hackers. The threat of DNS cache poisoning lead to the loss of $152k worth of cryptocurrencies. And this is just a bit. DNS attack could be take comparatively less effort to make an attack and results in much bigger consequences. So from this article, I'd like to talk about DNS cache poisoning what is DNS attack? Known as DNS spoofing, DNS cache poisoning, DNS amplification and DNS hijacking, is a type of exploit vulnerabilities in the DNS to divert internet traffic away from legitimate servers into fake ones. If the attacker is in the same internal netwo