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Iran admits to using hacking to avoid US sanctions on news website
2020-01-26
Congratulations on your cleverness, O wily Iranians! OK, guys, now nail that escape hatch closed.
[Jpost] An official admitted that the company had restored the domain to Fars by using DNS spoofing, a type of hacking that redirects users to the wrong website when they try to access a certain URL.

The Iranian Fars News Agency used DNS spoofing, a type of computer hacking, to restore its '.com' domain after it was blocked by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control's order on Saturday, according to Radio Farda.

One official from a company owned by Iran's Ministry of Telecommunications admitted that the company had restored the domain to Fars by using DNS spoofing, a type of hacking that redirects users to the wrong website when they try to access a certain URL.
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