Controlling your server with a reverse shell attack

This article explains reverse shell (connect-back) attacks, showing how an attacker can use remote code execution vulnerabilities (examples include Log4Shell, Spring4Shell, and Apache Commons RCE) to get interactive shell access to a target; it provides conceptual code examples (Java, Python, Node.js), describes how to listen with netcat, and offers developer-focused mitigations such as removing exec() usage, input validation, least-privilege execution, and dependency scanning with Snyk.