The malicious code is supplied into the target application via form fields or other input mechanisms. SQL injection is a special case of injection attack where the SQL statements are pushed into the system via field inputs and the SQL commands can get the dump of the sensitive data outside of the network. The attacker can get access to the authentication details if they reside in the database. Despite all the field validations and filtering at the web server layer, the injection attacks are frequent and one of the leading types of attack. The database logs can be used to train machine learning models based on statistical user profiles which can be built over a period of time as the users interacts with the databases.
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