A new cyberattack called double-clickjacking exploits a vulnerability in how users interact with web pages, potentially compromising their credentials. This attack bypasses existing protections against clickjacking by relying on the timing of double-clicks.
Hundreds of millions of web users have been warned about a new and dangerous cyber attack that doesn't care what browser you use—as long as you click twice. Application security and client-side offensive exploit researcher Paulos Yibelo, with a long history of discovering vulnerabilities and novel security threats, has revealed what could be the new attack methodology with the biggest reach of all—everyone using a web browser.
In a blog post detailing what is referred to as double-clickjacking, Yibelo describes in technical detail how hackers can compromise your credentials when you double-click in Chrome, Edge, Safari or just about any browser. This entirely new threat surface is exposed by the fact that hackers can trick the user of almost any website and almost any web browser into clicking something without even realizing they are doing it. It’s a new take on the old clickjacking attack which employed various methods to get users clicking on hidden or otherwise obfuscated web page elements. Clickjacking became obsolete when browser developers built protections into their software to prevent just such an attack. Double clickjacking, however, gets around these protections by adding another layer of attack that relies upon mouse double-click timing to get the victim to validate a login or somewhile thinking they are clicking something else, like a CAPTCHA, that is on the screen at the time. The TL;DR, in other words, is that a new window is opened, and the user is asked to double-click on a prompt while, in the blink of an eye, the hacker is switching context to a different window altogethe
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