Cyber Attacks Explained The Man In The Middle

Due to the encouraging feedback this series of articles has received, we decided to explore yet another type of cyber intrusion—the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, which is widely favoured by attackers. Unfortunately, many systems administrators don't se

I attacks, and I also demonstrated how it can result in an MITM attack. However, since this type of attack is favoured MITM attacks are used mainly to steal information and data. carried out properly, users can be completely oblivious to this

chain, and impersonate the endpoints seamlessly. The objective is to steal the session, and thus the information layers can potentially participate in the MITM attack.

possible MITM attacks. To steal the session, the attackers Next, the attackers use advanced tools to inject packets to packets, MITM attacks modify the intercepted data and re

Since it can happen at various layers, the severity of an established at lower OSI layers such as Layer 3, to dump all record an entire authentication session, and decipher the user