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Auto DNS poisoning: while charging Android smartphone via computer it is possible to perform automated and even remotely controlled DNS poisoning without any user interaction (www.mobile-hacker.com)

submitted 11 months ago by repostbot33 to c/netsec

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah. It was pretty interesting to hear the details of pretending to be a HID device and how you could use it in practice to make malicious changes to the host computer. But surely adding to /etc/hosts is not the most preferred sneaky thing you can do with your unrestricted access.