Agreed that it's not a MITM but for other reasons: Automattic didn't insert themselves in between two communication nodes. Instead, they replaced one node with

Agreed that it's not a MITM but for other reasons: Automattic didn't insert themselves in between two communication nodes. Instead, they replaced one node with themselves. No further communication between the original nodes to in-the-middle intercept. Isn't it rather a flavor of Impersonation Attack? And "fraud" is maybe an ok word too? > wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain (says some dictionary)