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posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 30 2018, @06:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-internet-was-broken dept.

Kevin Beaumont reports that, by compromising a router at Equinix in Chicago, attackers were able to forge DNS responses for myetherwallet.com, with users "redirected to a server hosted in Russia, which served the website using a fake certificate." Victims' online wallets were drained of cryptocurrency.

Also at The Verge and Ars Technica which said

Amazon lost control of a small number of its cloud services IP addresses for two hours on [April 24] when hackers exploited a known Internet-protocol weakness that let them to redirect traffic to rogue destinations. By subverting Amazon's domain-resolution service, the attackers masqueraded as cryptocurrency website MyEtherWallet.com and stole about $150,000 in digital coins from unwitting end users. They may have targeted other Amazon customers as well.

Wikipedia on BGP


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 30 2018, @12:10PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday April 30 2018, @12:10PM (#673687)

    blindingly obvious

    Yes, yes they do, every few seconds whenever you visit one of the millions of sites without a valid cert. Blinding is right.

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