Session or Cookie Hijacking

How session or cookie hijacking works and how to protect yourself

What is Session or Cookie Hijacking ?

Session Hijacking, or Cookie Hijacking in other words, is the situation where an attacker steals the session by capturing the Session Cookies of the session owner user.

How Does Session Hijacking Work ?

Session Hijacking attack can occur in many ways. Some of them are below:

* Stealing cookies by sending a malicious link to the user.

* There is an XSS vulnerability on the web application, thus stealing cookies by injecting malicious code into the area where the vulnerability is located.

* Stealing cookies by infecting the user's device with malware.

How Can Session Hijacking Be Prevented?

* By logging out of sites where you are finished.

* Do not click on links that you do not know and seem suspicious.

* By clearing your cookies at regular intervals.

* By using a robust Anti Virus program.

You might probably be wondering how to hijack a victims cookies or session. There are a lot of ways to do it.. But the best tool i will will recommend is BeEF (kali 2 )..