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: 2) by HiThere on Monday April 30 2018, @05:18PM (1 child)
That "silly green paper" can be used to keep the government from taking your stuff. That's what gives it value. What gives the electronic numbers value is that you can exchange them for "silly green paper". That's a step or so further removed, which is part of what makes the value fluctuate.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 30 2018, @06:28PM
I keep trying for "Troll" or "Flamebait" and nobody seems to get it...
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