Session Hijacking in Cybersecurity: Threats, Prevention Strategies, and Future Directions
R Santhakumar, R Keerthana, S Madhubala, Dr. Thamizh Selvam D · INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT · 2025
Session hijacking poses a grim threat to cybersecurity, for the attackers take undue advantage of an active session to access protected user accounts and confidential information without consent. This is a direct attack on the session tokens, usually performed by packet sniffing, XSS, or MITM. Web session protection is vital with the growing trend of digital interactions to avert identification theft, financial scamming, and data breaches. This paper helps analyse methods of session hijacking, methods of prevention, and the building of better security practices such as encryption, token validation, and AI-based detection methods to plug security loopholes against session hijacking attacks. An extensive exposition of security strategies and future research routes is directed at intensifying cybersecurity resilience against session hijacking threats. Keywords: Session Hijacking, Cybersecurity, Web Security, Session Tokens, MITM Attack, Encryption, Token Validation, AI-based Detection.