What Is The Result Of An Arp Poisoning Attack?
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What Is the Result of An Arp Poisoning Attack?
Answer: The attacker uses the ARP poisoning method in which the reply for the request of the IPv4 is given that belongs to some other device like the default gateway. The attacker continuously executes the MITM attack and imitates the gateway and sends the response to the request requested by the sender. The receiver of the reply listed the attacker’s MAC address in the ARP table and the frames are sent toward the attacker. That’s how the traffic to the gateway moves with the hacker device.
ARP spoofing which is also referred to as ARP poisoning is another kind of cyber-attack through LAN in which the malevolent ARP frames send toward the default gateway just to replace the IP to MAC address pairing in the table. ARP protocol work by translating the IP address to MAC address, as it is designed just for efficiency not for security. The attack is successful and quite easy till the hackers have full control of the target.
In the attack, the attacker sends the wrong ARP reply for the request toward the default gateway, by showing that his MAC address is assigned to the target IP address and vice versa. As the message is received on the gateway and all the changes are made to the devices in a network the traffic of the target with devices over a network is moved through the attacker’s computer, permitting the attacker to check the frames before moving to the real destination. An ARP spoofing happens on a low level, and the target has no idea that his traffic is being checked and changed. Apart from the Man-in-the-middle attack, the attack can also be the reason for the denial of service in a local area network by interfering or dropping and not transferring the frames.
The ARP spoofing effect is that the traffic which is assigned to go to more than one host in the local area network just went to the destination chosen by the attacker. The traffic went to the hacker device as well as to an unknown location, it depends on the specifics.