Preso hacker que redirecionava sites na Alemanha

A polícia alemã prendeu um hacker de 19 anos de idade por redirecionar o tráfego do site eBay Alemanha para uma página falsa. O acusado admitiu ter pedido transferência de DNS de vários grandes sites, como Google e Web.de. Ainda é incerto o motivo pelo qual os DNS do eBay Alemanha foram transferidos para o site falso sem o consentimento dos donos.

Police in Germany have arrested a 19 year-old from Helmstedt for hijacking the site of eBay Germany about a week ago. Visitors to eBay Germany were redirected to a site hosted by internet provider Intergenia AG. Initially, phishers were suspected of the domain hijack.

The boy admitted he requested a DNS (domain name server) transfer for several high-profile sites, including Google.com, Web.de, Amazon.com and eBay Germany. While most of these transfers were denied, somehow eBay slipped through. It remains unclear how the domain could have been transferred without the consent of the existing holder.

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