code injection
Web App Security: Don’t Let the Code Injection Grinch Steal Holiday Joy
This holiday season more and more e-commerce site operators will be deploying web app security solutions such as content security policies (CSPs) to protect themselves and their users against cyberattacks, including cross-site ...
What is Code Injection and How to Avoid It
Code injection, also called Remote Code Execution (RCE), occurs when an attacker exploits an input validation flaw in software to introduce and execute malicious code. Code is injected in the language of ...
Dridex’s Bag of Tricks: An Analysis of its Masquerading and Code Injection Techniques
A new variant of Dridex observed in July 2019 masquerades as legitimate Windows system processes to avoid detection. The variant uses five code injection techniques during its infection lifecycle: AtomBombing, DLL order ...
Government, E-commerce Sites Hacked Through Database Tool
For the past year, hackers—some of them associated with the MageCart online skimming group—have broken into high-profile online stores by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a web-based database management tool. The ...
Online Retailer Newegg Hit by Magecart Card Skimming Gang
The same attackers believed to be responsible for the recent breach of British Airways customer payment data have injected card skimming code into the site of U.S. online retailer Newegg.com. The code ...
British Airways Site Infected with Card Skimming Code
Security researchers believe the recent data breach announced by British Airways was the result of malicious code being injected into the company’s website to steal information from payment forms. According to researchers ...
Turkish, Egyptian ISPs help local government conduct massive spyware operation
Canadian researchers from human rights organization Citizen Lab uncovered a major computer espionage operation spreading across Turkey, Egypt and, indirectly, Syria. The operation, which started in 2017, is a nation-state-level network injection ...
