The SQL Server attack pattern is consistent: attackers do not always need a spectacular vulnerability. They often succeed by chaining normal features that were granted too broadly, trusted too much, or monitored too narrowly.
In this article, I’ll focus on operational blind spots in SQL Server. These are the features DBAs use every day to keep SQL Server healthy: linked servers, traces, Dynamic Management Views, Extended Events, and session-management commands such as KILL.
These tools, while necessary, also create visibility, automation, and trust paths that attackers can abuse after compromising a low-privileged application account or a local database owner.
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