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GoPlus: How to prevent browser plug-in hijacking
Original source: GoPlus
Recently, a Twitter user installed the Aggr plug-in on the Chrome browser, which caused the browser cookies to be hijacked, and the asset loss exceeded 1 million US dollars.
The essence of browser plug-ins (extensions) is that users entrust the plug-ins to process part of the web page information on their behalf, but in fact, it can not only access and modify the original web page information, but also obtain positioning, read/modify the clipboard, read Cookies/history, screenshots and keyboard records, etc. In other words, these plug-ins can not only obtain information such as Cookies, but also directly determine what the web pages we see look like.
Recently, a Twitter user installed the Aggr plug-in on the Chrome browser, which caused the browser cookies to be hijacked, and the asset loss exceeded 1 million US dollars.
The essence of browser plug-ins (extensions) is that users entrust the plug-ins to process part of the web page information on their behalf, but in fact, it can not only access and modify the original web page information, but also obtain positioning, read/modify the clipboard, read Cookies/history, screenshots and keyboard records, etc. In other words, these plug-ins can not only obtain information such as Cookies, but also directly determine what the web pages we see look like.
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