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A hacker corrupted the name:IP records held on the HOSTS file on a client, to divert traffic for a legitimate domain to a malicious IP address. What type of attack did the hacker perform

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The type of attack that the hacker performed is Domain Name System (DNS) server cache poisoning.

What is DNS poisoning?

In Domain Name System (DNS) server cache poisoning, the hackers often enter into a DNS server because they want to make an adjustment to its directory so that it can point the domain name users enter to a wrong, IP address.

Note that Domain Name Server (DNS) poisoning is a form of system attack in which there is the change of DNS records which are then used to redirect online traffic to a wrong website.

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