Some 88% of all SQLinjectionattacks between January and March of this year were carried out by either Havij or sqlmap, according to new research from Imperva, with the majority of attacks using Havij.
Plenty of folks in the cyber security field have debated whether the rise of Anonymous would actually lead to increased spending on services like protection from DDoS attacks, which can temporarily paralyze a website, and SQL injection-type attacks that can raid a database and sometimes purge it of all contents.
There has been a surge of cyber attacks on companies this year using SQLInjection, a relatively straightforward method that involves inputting programming code, which a server or site cannot handle.