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Phishing Attacks against Password Manager Browser Extensions

Password manager extension popups are painted over the page viewport and look no different from page content, so a site the attacker controls can render a convincing replica of a locked password manager and capture the master password typed into it. In a simulation with 29,800 participants, more than 30 percent of targeted users entered it.

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Claudio Anliker, Daniele Lain and Srdjan Capkun
Published by
usenix.org
Topic
Browser

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