Ethical Hacking 05: Waterhole Hacking Attacks



Waterhole hacking attacks accepted their name from the system. In these hacking attacks, programmers exploit the way that their designated targets frequently meet or work at a specific physical location.

Then, at that point, they plant a "poison" in that location to accomplish malicious targets.


In these lessons:

  1. The Secrecy Of A Fake Wireless Access Points
  2. Web Cookie Stealing Attack
  3. Malicious URL Redirects Hosted File
  4. Computer File Location
  5. Waterhole Hacking Attack
  6. Bait and Switching Attack


Most huge organizations have a nearby clubhouse, mall, or restaurant that is well known to workers.

Hackers will make fake Wireless access points or WAPs trying to get whatever a number of credentials could be expected under the circumstances and will harmfully a regularly visited the site to do exactly the same thing.


End-users are many times more loose and clueless on the grounds that the targeted location is a public web portal.

Waterhole hacking attacks turned out to be quite an enormous issue in the earlier year when a few high-profile tech organizations, including Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft among others, were compromised due to well-known application sites they visited.

The sites had been harmed by a hosted file URL redirects made from JavaScript programming language that inserted malware on the programmers' computers. The compromised computer workstations were then utilized to get to the credential of the targets inside the companies.



Hacking Tips

Ensure your workers understand that waterhole attack are normal hacker targets. Also, don't ever use an uncommon browser.


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