[Music] a man in the middle attack is a type of cyber attack in which an attacker intercepts and relays messages between two parties who believe they're communicating with each other man in the middle attacks pose a serious threat to online security because the attacker can capture and manipulate sensitive data like login credentials account details or credit card numbers in real time men in the middle attacks typically follow these steps an attacker installs a packet sniffer to detect insecure network traffic once a user logs into the insecure website the attacker sends them to a fake website
the fake website mimics the original website and collects all pertinent user data that the attacker then uses on the original website cyber criminals conduct man in the middle attacks in a variety of ways including ip spoofing dns spoofing http spoofing email hijacking wi-fi eavesdropping and cache poisoning among others you
