Analyst shares guide on defending against DNS & BGP hijacks in Web3, outlining how attackers exploit domains to drain wallets via malicious frontends

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Neutrl got DNS-hijacked just last month — provider compromised, users redirected to a drainer frontend, team had to pause contracts and migrate the entire domain. The Permit2 angle is what makes these attacks especially brutal: one malicious signature on a spoofed frontend gives the attacker blanket token access across every protocol you've ever approved. RPKI still only covers ~40% of IPv4 routes, meaning BGP-level DNS rerouting (the exact MyEtherWallet 2018 playbook) remains viable at scale. Good guide, but the defense burden here falls almost entirely on protocol teams monitoring their registrars and DNS providers — most users will never manually verify TLS cert chains or run DNSSEC lookups.

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