12 Injection vulnerabilities
In this chapter
- How attackers inject code into web applications
- How attackers inject commands into databases
- How attackers inject operating system commands
- How attackers inject the line-feed character maliciously
- How attackers inject malicious regular expressions
Ransomware has been the scourge of the internet in recent years. Ransomware operators work on a franchise model: they lend their malicious software to affiliates, and then those affiliates—hackers themselves—scour the web for vulnerable servers (or buy the addresses of already compromised servers from the dark web) to which they can deploy ransomware. The victims wake up the next day to find that the contents of their servers have been encrypted and that ...
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