DNS attacks: How they try to direct you to fake pages

DNS servers are essential to the normal functioning of the internet as we know and love it, but they tend to go unnoticed by most users. At least, that is, until some sort of attack or incident occurs that stops them from working normally, which results in the services we use every day starting to fail (something that happened recently when the Mirai botnet attacked a company called DynDNS).

One thing for sure is that there is more than one type of attack that can affect these servers—and in this article we will look at the differences between them

DNS attacks: How they try to direct you to fake pages