Folks often like to think of URLs as an entity that can be evaluated: “Is it harmless, or is it malicious?” In particular, vendors of security products tend to lump URLs in with other IoCs (indicators of compromise) like the hash of a known-malicious file, a malicious/compromised digital certificate, or a known-malicious IP address. Unfortunately,Continue reading “Beware: URLs are Pointers to Mutable Entities”
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Attack Techniques: Fullscreen Abuse
It’s extremely difficult to prevent attacks when there are no trustworthy pixels on the screen, especially if a user doesn’t realize that none of what they’re seeing should be trusted. Unfortunately for the browsing public, the HTML5 Fullscreen API can deliver this power to an attacker. Today (and for over a decade now), an attackingContinue reading “Attack Techniques: Fullscreen Abuse”
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