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'Drive by Pharming' Attacks Potential Threat to Broadband Users


pharming1 Researchers at Symantec and the Indiana University School of Informatics have uncovered a new threat to broadband users. The attack, nicknamed "Drive-by Pharming", uses JavaScript on a Web site created by a hacker to reconfigure broadband routers. Once the user clicks on a link, the malicious JavaScript code changes the DNS settings on the user's router so that every time the user logs on to a Web site, DNS resolution will be performed by the attacker.

As a result, the attacker has complete control over which Web sites the victim visits on the Internet. A user may think, for example, that they are visiting their online banking Web site, but in reality they have been redirected to a phony site set up by the attacker. 'Drive-by Pharming' Attacks Potential Threat to Broadband Users





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