Brazilian Banks in a fix: Hackers Exploiting DLink Routers to Redirect Users to Fake Brazilian Banks
Hackers have adopted a clever approach to swindle users of their hard earned money without letting them have a slightest clue. The loopholes in the DLink DSL modem routers have been ingeniously leveraged by cyber miscreants to deceive users. Let us check the process of handling user based queries & requests for web pages and routines over internet after we get acquainted with the following terms: DSL (Digital Subscriber Line): High Speed digital data transfer between servers and systems using telephone lines. DNS Server (Domain Name System ): It is a service on multiple servers to resolve the browsing URL that the user inputs to IP (Internet Protocol) Addresses where the website is found. Let us now proceed and understand how a web page is displayed when a user inputs a URL Every single URL on the internet has an IP address assigned to it. The IP address points to the computer that hosts the server of the website we are requesting to access. When a user enters a URL (w...