III. Extracting a Company’s Data Using Web Data Extractor
III. Extracting a Company’s Data Using Web Data Extractor
Attackers continuously look for the easiest method to collect information. There are many tools available with which attackers can extract a company’s database. Once they have access to the database, they can gather employees’ email addresses and phone numbers, the company’s internal URLs, etc. With the information gathered, they can send spam emails to the employees to fill their mailboxes, hack into the company’s website, and modify the internal URLs. They may also install malicious viruses to make the database inoperable.
As an expert penetration tester, you should be able to think from an attacker’s perspective and try all possible ways to gather information on organizations. You should be able to collect all the confidential information of an organization and implement security features to prevent company data leakage. In this lab, you will learn to use Web Data Extractor to extract a company’s data.