Question of the day 05/09, Cybersecurity Edition


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Day 4.

A malicious actor put online a fake replica of an important store.
Then the malicious actor redirect traffic of a LAN segment from legitimate website to the fake one.
What's the name of this hacking activity?

  • ARP poisoning
  • DNS poisoning
  • ARP spoofing
  • DNS flood attack

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Mhh, I think you are speaking of DNS poisoning (or spoofing), because of the different LAN segments.

In a single LAN (segment) you can accomplish the same with ARP poisoning (or spoofing).

The last option (DNS flood attack) is a denial of service attack.

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ARP spoofing

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  • DNS poisoning
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DNS poisoning is the correct one!
Thanks @JMeixner for the explanation 😎

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@JMeixner @marcofabbri 

Microsoft issues guidance for DNS cache poisoning vulnerability (bleepingcomputer.com)

:)

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