Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS

Trailrunner7 writes "There's a large-scale attack underway that is targeting Web servers running Microsoft's IIS software, injecting the sites with a specific malicious script. The attack has compromised tens of thousands of sites already, experts say, and there's no clear indication of who's behind the campaign right now. The attack, which researchers first noticed earlier this week, already has affected a few high-profile sites, including those belonging to The Wall Street Journal and The Jerusalem Post. Some analyses of the IIS attack suggest that it is directed at a third-party ad management script found on these sites."

Comments

Re:Wrong tag

[Michael Kristopeit]

it is due to sql... if the databases and website frameworks forced a different query language that forced variable parametrization, there wouldn't be any injection risk.

Re:Poor programing practices, NOT IIS or SQL at fa

[Galestar]

Here's a more accurate version: Anyone writing code that doesn't sanitize input needs to find a new line of work.

Fixed that for you

Re:If it is platform independent

[Dragonslicer]

SQL injection is completely independent of web server, programming language, and database system. An idiot can write vulnerable code in any language, using any database system, and run it on any web server. My guess about why this is only targeting IIS is that the attack is against some specific ASP.NET code, so the vulnerability isn't in IIS, but the vulnerable code only runs on IIS.