Millions of digital assets have been stolen by cyber adversaries via DNS hijacking attacks for phishing purposes, targeting users’ wallet seed phrases, or creating deceptive webpages that closely resemble legitimate sites.
Attacks on Domain Name Systems (DNSs) play a crucial role in the internet’s infrastructure, providing insights into security incidents in Web 2 that have directly affected the Web3 industry. However, transitioning to decentralized frontends has emerged as a practical way to tackle these challenges, according to a recent report by CertiK.
DNS Hijacking of DeFi Protocols
DNS hijacking is an attack that targets a core component of Internet infrastructure. It has the potential to render a public DNS service inaccessible in certain scenarios, or it can be employed to reroute users to malicious websites, in other cases.
Typically, the attacker manipulates the DNS by substituting the mapping (DomainName, Legitimate IP) with (DomainName, MaliciousServer IP). This tamperi
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