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Cross-site scripting. Cross-site scripting ( XSS) is a type of security vulnerability that can be found in some web applications. XSS attacks enable attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy.
Sub7, or SubSeven or Sub7Server, is a Trojan horse - more specifically a Remote Trojan Horse - program originally released in February 1999. [1] [2] [3] Its name was derived by spelling NetBus backwards ("suBteN") and swapping "ten" with "seven". As of June 2021, the development of Sub7 is being continued. [4]
A Trojan horse is a program that purports to perform some legitimate function, yet upon execution it compromises the user's security. [17] A simple example is the following malicious version of the Linux sudo command. An attacker would place this script in a publicly writable directory (e.g., /tmp).
Hex dump of the Blaster worm, showing a message left for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates by the worm's programmer. This timeline of computer viruses and worms presents a chronological timeline of noteworthy computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, similar malware, related research and events.
Tiny Banker Trojan, also called Tinba, is a malware program that targets financial institution websites. It is a modified form of an older form of viruses known as Banker Trojans, yet it is much smaller in size and more powerful. It works by establishing man-in-the-browser attacks and network sniffing. Since its discovery, it has been found to ...
DarkComet is a remote access trojan (RAT) developed by Jean-Pierre Lesueur (known as DarkCoderSc [2]), an independent programmer and computer security coder from France.. Although the RAT was developed back in 2008, it began to proliferate at the start of
The ANOM (also stylized as AN0M or ΛNØM) sting operation (known as Operation Trojan Shield (stylized TRØJAN SHIELD) or Operation Ironside) is a collaboration by law enforcement agencies from several countries, running between 2018 and 2021, that intercepted millions of messages sent through the supposedly secure smartphone -based proprietary ...
Trojan Source. Trojan Source is the name of a software vulnerability that abuses Unicode 's bidirectional characters to display source code differently than the actual execution of the source code. [1] The exploit utilizes how writing scripts of different reading directions are displayed and encoded on computers.