Pharming
Pharming is a cyberattack intended to redirect a website's traffic to another, fake site by installing a malicious program on the victim's computer in order to gain access to it. Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim's computer or by Exploit (computer security), exploitation of a vulnerability (computing), vulnerability in Domain name system, DNS server software. DNS servers are computers responsible for resolving Internet names into their real IP addresses. Compromised DNS servers are sometimes referred to as DNS spoofing, "poisoned". Pharming requires unprotected access to target a computer, such as altering a customer's home computer, rather than a corporate business server. The term "pharming" is a neologism based on the words "farming" and "phishing". Phishing is a type of social engineering (computer security), social-engineering attack to obtain Authentication, access credentials, such as user names and passwords. In recent years, both phar ...
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