One of China's largest ISPs has recently fallen victim to the DNS vulnerability. The security company Websense has reported that the DNS cache on the default DNS server used by the China's Netcom customers has been poisoned. The incident was first discovered on Tuesday, Aug 19th, by Websense's Beijing lab.

Webssense researchers say they have seen other DNS vulnerability attacks however decided to publicize this particular case because of its uniqueness. According to reports, hackers have only exploited one of Netcom's DNS servers in China. When China's Netcom customers mistype and enter an invalid domain name, the poisoned DNS server directs the visitor's browser to a page that contains malicious code.

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