Spoofing refers to a particular type of cyberattack, where hackers exploit a device or network to trick other networks by making it seem like a legitimate action. IP spoofing allows cybercriminals to gain access to user computers to mine sensitive personal information and business data, take over the device for malicious use, or run Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. What is IP Spoofing? IP spoofing works by exploiting the data packets sent and received over a network. Hackers use different tools to modify the source IP address in the data packet, which makes the destination IP address see it as a trusted source and accept the transmission. As all of that happens at the network level and there are no signs of[…]