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What is DNS Poisoning & DNS Spoofing? Mitigation Tactics for 2026

When you type a familiar website address in your web browser, you expect to land on a particular webpage, but what if you are redirected to a fake website designed to steal your sensitive data? Cyber attackers trick your internet settings into sending you to fake websites instead of the real ones. This is called a DNS spoofing or poisoning attack which exploits vulnerabilities in the Domain Name System (DNS) to compromise the entire network.