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Unconfirmed Reports Suggest Top Brazilian Bank Hit With Cache-Poisoning Attack

  • Apr 22, 2009 2:10 PM PDT
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One of Brazil's biggest banks has suffered an attack that redirected its customers to fraudulent websites that attempted to steal passwords and install malware, according to an unconfirmed report.

According to this Google translation of an article penned in Portuguese, the redirection of Bradesco was the result of what's known as a cache poisoning attack on Brazilian internet service provider NET Virtua…

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Updates:  UPDATED Apr 23, 2009 10:39 AM PDT
Report Claims DNS Cache Poisoning Attack Against Brazilian Bank and ISP Larry Seltzer, eWeek

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