Cache-poisoning attack snares top Brazilian bank

From The Register (Dan Goodin)

One of Brazil’s biggest banks has suffered an attack that redirected its customers to fraudulent websites that attempted to steal passwords and install malware, according to an unconfirmed report.

According to this Google translation of an article penned in Portuguese, the redirection of Bradesco was the result of what’s known as a cache poisoning attack on Brazilian internet service provider NET Virtua. Read the full story [theregister.co.uk]

From The Register (Dan Goodin)

One of Brazil’s biggest banks has suffered an attack that redirected its customers to fraudulent websites that attempted to steal passwords and install malware, according to an unconfirmed report.

According to this Google translation of an article penned in Portuguese, the redirection of Bradesco was the result of what’s known as a cache poisoning attack on Brazilian internet service provider NET Virtua. Read the full story [theregister.co.uk]

 

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