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Clickjacking

New Unpatched Bug Could Let Attackers Steal Money from PayPal Users

A security researcher claims to have discovered an unpatched vulnerability in PayPal’s money transfer service that could allow attackers to trick victims into unknowingly completing attacker-directed transactions with a single click. Clickjacking, also called UI redressing, refers to a technique wherein an unwitting user is tricked into clicking seemingly innocuous webpage elements like buttons with […]

Researcher Shows How Facebook Worm Attack Can Spam Your Wall

A security researcher has published the proof-of-concept code which demonstrates how to create a fully functional Facebook worm. It’s a clickjack bomb that can spam your wall by exploiting a vulnerability on Facebook. The researcher, who works under the pseudonym of Lasq, says he has seen this flaw getting abused on the platform by a […]

Blazy – Modern Login Bruteforcer Which Also Tests For CSRF, Clickjacking, Cloudflare and WAF

Blazy is a modern login page bruteforcer. Features Easy target selections Smart form and error detection CSRF and Clickjacking Scanner Cloudflare and WAF Detector 90% accurate results Checks for login bypass via SQL injection Multi-threading 100% accurate results Better form detection and compatibility Requirements Beautiful Soup Mechanize Usages Open your terminal and enter git clone […]

New Attack Called “XSSJacking” Discovered That Combined of Clickjacking, Pastejacking and Self-XSS Attacks

A New Attack method called “XSSJacking” a type of Web application Clickjacking, Pastejacking and Self-XSS Web application based Attack Discovered by the Security Researcher Dylan Ayrey. While Clickjacking vulnerability existing in particular page, this attack will trigger Self-XSS. “Self–XSS is a social engineering attack used to gain control of victims’ web accounts.In a self–XSS attack, the […]

Web Applications Attacks: Clickjacking

Clickjacking attack is also known as a “UI redress”, is when an attacker uses various transparent or opaque layers to fool a victim into clicking on a button or link on another page when they were expecting to click on the top level page. Thus, the attacker is “hijacking” clicks meant for their page and […]

New Attack “XSSJacking” Combines Clickjacking, Pastejacking, and Self-XSS

Security researcher Dylan Ayrey detailed last week a new web-based attack named XSSJacking that combines three other techniques  — Clickjacking, Pastejacking, and Self-XSS — to steal data from careless users. Ayrey says XSSJacking can help attackers reach sensitive information for which they would normally need a more complex security flaw, such as a stored XSS […]

Android ransomware variant uses clickjacking to become device administrator

Android.Lockdroid.E poses as a porn app and tricks users into giving it admin rights. Almost 67 percent of Android devices are at risk. Symantec has found an Android ransomware variant (Android.Lockdroid.E) that uses new tactics, involving a fake package installation, to trick users into giving the malware device administrator rights. As well as encrypting files […]