Drive-by pharming
Drive-by Pharming - a form of cyber threat, a combination of pharming attacks and social engineering. The aggressor's goal is to induce the victim to visit a malicious web page that has a malicious code (usually in the form of a JavaScript script), which is used to change the DNS settings on the visitor's router so that the addresses entered by the user will be redirected to the pages that are processed by the user. attacker. Thus, the aggressor can prepare, for example, an online bank login page that looks identical to the original one. However, access data instead of enabling login will be sent to the attacker.
For a Drive-by Pharming attack, the router password must be empty, factory-set, or easy to guess. To protect against this type of threat, it is important to set up a router that is difficult to crack passwords, not to open pages that we do not trust, or to log in to banks or similar institutions, it is important to check that the connection is encrypted and that the page is secure. valid certificate.
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