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Cross Domain Basic Auth Phishing Tactics

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Basic-auth phishing needs no clicked link: an embedded image on a protected domain pops the credential dialog on the page you want to phish. Alex supplies two dialog-spoofing bugs that hide the real host: Opera truncates the hostname after 34 characters and appends an ellipsis, and IE7 shows the Punycode form, so a Cyrillic o in microsoft.de passes.

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ha.ckers.org web application security lab - Archive » Cross Domain Basic Auth Phishing Tactics

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• Collected in the 2007 research round

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• phishing
• url-spoofing
• unicode
• ui-redress
• abuse-of-functionality
• owasp-a04-2021

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