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MyEtherWallet DNS hijacking: $13.00M Reported Loss

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Incident Overview

After logging in to the website for 10s, the user's wallet is emptied, the hacker hijacks the DNS server, and the user logs in to MyEtherWallet to force a redirect to the malicious website. The user was forced to redirect to a malicious website when logging in to MyEtherWallet.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://www.freebuf.com/articles/blockchain-articles/169773.html (opens in a new tab)

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