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Interception, Spoofing and Redirection Attacks

Offenses of sitting between two parties, forging an identity or redirecting traffic, including man-in-the-middle attacks, DNS spoofing, forged email, wiretapping, pharming, clickjacking, watering hole attacks and supply chain attacks. An offense belongs here when the definition is deceiving a system or intercepting communication. It excludes phishing aimed at people. Entries placed here are Man-in-the-Middle Attack, DNS Spoofing, Email Spoofing, Illegal Wiretapping, Pharming, Clickjacking, Watering Hole Attack and Supply Chain Attack.

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Wiretapping (Wikipedia)
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Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means.
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Pharming (Wikipedia)
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Pharming is a cyberattack intended to redirect a website's traffic to another, fake site by installing a malicious program on the victim's computer in order to gain access to it.
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Watering hole attack, Wikipedia
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Watering hole is a computer attack strategy in which an attacker guesses or observes which websites an organization's users frequent and then uses one or more of the websites to distribute malware.
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Clickjacking (Wikipedia)
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Clickjacking (classified as a user interface redress attack or UI redressing) is a malicious technique of tricking a user into clicking on something different from what the user perceives, thus potentially revealing confidential information or allowing others to take control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous objects, including web pages.
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Supply chain attack (Wikipedia)
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A supply chain attack is a cyber-attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less secure elements in the supply chain.
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DNS spoofing (Wikipedia)
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DNS spoofing, also referred to as DNS cache poisoning, is a form of computer security hacking in which corrupt Domain Name System data is introduced into the DNS resolver's cache, causing the name server to return an incorrect result record, e.g. an IP address.
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Email spoofing (Wikipedia)
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Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address.
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18 U.S. Code section 2511, Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
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intentionally intercepts , endeavors to intercept , or procures any other person to intercept or endeavor to intercept , any wire, oral, or electronic communication ;
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