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Hijacked web pages

Users report that the campaign page you load in an in-app WKWebView shows carrier or router ads injected into it, or jumps to an unrelated site. What kind of attack is this?

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It's HTTP or DNS hijacking, a man-in-the-middle attack where a cleartext HTTP page is altered or redirected somewhere along the path, by a carrier, a router, or a poisoned DNS.

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