Friday, May 27, 2016

Another security buzzword "PasteJacking"



This one is not from a hacker but a POC from a security researcher.


From the article:

Researcher-warns-PasteJacking-hack-attacks-targeting-users-clipboards

Researcher Dylan Ayrey explains that some web browsers now allow developers to add content to a user's clipboard under certain circumstances.

Attackers can theoretically exploit this ability to trick users into running commands they otherwise wouldn't want entered on their computers, in order to gain remote code execution. These types of attacks generally make use of HTML/CS


For more info
https://www.grahamcluley.com/2016/05/researcher-warns-pastejacking-hack-attacks-targeting-users-clipboards/

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