RÉCIT – Downloaded nearly 100 million times per week by IT developers, Axios is a reference program, constantly used by web applications when they receive or send your information.
The affair could cause significant turmoil in the days, weeks and months to come. A piece of software, invisible to all Internet users and yet essential to the proper functioning of the global Internet, was the victim of a vast attack carried out in the greatest secrecy. Google alerted the facts, and warned that “hundreds of thousands of stolen documents could potentially circulate,” following this assault.
To understand everything about the file, you must first correctly characterize this software, known especially to web developers. Axios is, nothing more and nothing less, a reference program. “Every time you load a website, check your bank balance, or open an app on your phone, there’s a good chance that Axios is running somewhere in the background for it to work.”underlined Tom Hegel, principal researcher at SentinelOne, a cybersecurity platform. Axios is particularly used when a web application needs to retrieve data or…
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