Quote from: Xester on April 29, 2018, 12:24:09 PM

Quote from: redpillorblue on April 28, 2018, 02:31:49 PM

I have been compiling a guide (for everyone and my team) on how to protect yourself from online scammers here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3415026.msg35714276#msg35714276

And I am yet to find an definitive answer to how to protect yourself from DNS Hijacking.

From my understanding, this type of hijack can happen either on your own machine (simple, if your machine is compromised), or from the website level (more sophisticated attack).

Any ideas / tools / methods you use to detect / prevent such attacks?

I have already read your tagged post on this forum before and I agree with you pertaining the Trojans that attacked one's pc, infiltrate and hacked important datas stored in the PC. There was a very famous trojan mining software that enters your computer and mines cryptocurrency without you knowing, aside from that they are accessing your important information on your pc. The best way to protect yourself from that Trojan is to install Bit Defender on your computer. It is effective against Trojan.

I have nod32 and it often completely blocks or asks me if I want to ignore and continue when I visit websites. Sometimes I ignore and continue since it is a false positive, but I am always very careful. I also use malware search and destroy.

http://whoismydns.com/ will tell you what DNS you currently connected to.

Quote from: BITDV on September 26, 2019, 06:53:10 AM

Here is my way to protect my laptop from any hacking activities, ofcourse my way not give any warranty your system will not injected atleast this is your first mitigation

1. Make sure we installed anti virus
2. Make sure firewall is on
3. Use private tab to visit fishy website
4. do not ever install any app, plugin to your systems
5. do not trust public wifi better to connect to your mobile hotspot, hacker can sniff, interupt or steal your data. Trust me, i always doing this when i was young
6. due due diligence while visiting / register on a website

You must use a VPN when you are connecting to public wifi and never log in to important sites while you are there just in case. You must also take care of where you plug your devices in as well. I was reading another member here talking about having a malicious program built into a phone charger. That is pretty scary. What if a hacker somehow managed to install programs into the usb chargers before they are sold so they can highjack the DNS and direct the traffic where ever they want to. Most commonly a DNS high jack will redirect you to sites with a lot of advertising on it or offers for downloads which are really just even more horrible viruses such as a rat. If they control your DNS they can direct the owners pc to a site and trick the owner into installing a rat. Then the hacker has remote control too. Scary....