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# IPv6 Attacks

All Windows versions since Windows Vista (including server variants) have IPv6 enabled and prefer it over IPv4. \
IPv6 attacks abuses the default IPv6 configuration in Windows networks to spoof DNS replies by acting as a malicious DNS server and redirect traffic to an attacker specified endpoint.