Collected research

Pride and Prejudice in Progressive Web Apps: Abusing Native App-like Features in Web Applications

Jiyeon Lee, Hayeon Kim, Junghwan Park, Insik Shin and Sooel Son · ACM

Studies progressive web apps’ push notifications, offline caches and service workers. It demonstrates push-domain spoofing through leaked subscription objects, offline history inference from cross-origin iframe load events, and persistent cryptocurrency mining via push-driven workers. A crawl measures deployment and tests attacks against browsers and push services.

Record

Researcher

Jiyeon Lee, Hayeon Kim, Junghwan Park, Insik Shin and Sooel Son

Published by

ACM

Format

Whitepaper

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Collected in the 2018 research round

Tags

• service-worker
• cache
• side-channel
• phishing
• iframe
• measurement-study
• abuse-of-functionality
• info-leak
• owasp-a04-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Jiyeon Lee, Hayeon Kim, Junghwan Park, Insik Shin and Sooel Son, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 10 September 2026.