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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @03:53PM (1 child)
You guys say stuff like that thinking that it sounds very Insightful (+1), but you are demonstratively false. The world over from rich oligarch to lowly drug pusher knows the value of the greenback. Central American kingpins hoard it, and international currency transactions use it, even between non-American countries! The Iranians took billions of dollars in huge pallets of greenbacks. Perhaps you are technically correct at some limited understanding Econ 101-level, and perhaps it makes you feel better for participating in the crypto-currency lottery (or maybe it just makes you feel all "non-conformist"), but no, that silly green paper they move around in armored trucks has real tangible value as opposed to the digital currency flavor of the month.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @04:54PM
It's not a greenback. It's a counterfeit Greenback made by seditious slave masters. Plus, your whole point is fucking stupid. The dollar only has the value conferred onto it just like cryptocurrencies. The point was "inherent" value. I think you know that too, so you're so keen on kissing ass you'll even lie for your masters. As if the counterfeit greenback(dollar), fractional reserve banking and private bankster cartels are legitimate, people-friendly money. give me a fucking break.