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Faculty of Science and Information Technology => Recent Technologies and Trends in Software Engineering => Software Engineering => Cyber and Software Security => Topic started by: maruf.swe on March 25, 2019, 06:46:01 PM

Title: How Web Apps Can Turn Browser Extensions Into Backdoors
Post by: maruf.swe on March 25, 2019, 06:46:01 PM
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Researchers show how rogue web applications can be used to attack vulnerable browser extensions in a hack that gives adversaries access to private user data.

Researchers have added another reason to be suspicious of web browser extensions. According to a recently published academic report, various Chrome, Firefox and Opera browser extensions can be compromised by an adversary that can steal sensitive browser data and plant arbitrary files on targeted systems.

For More Details : https://threatpost.com/web-apps-browser-extensions-backdoors/141061/ (https://threatpost.com/web-apps-browser-extensions-backdoors/141061/)