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Anatomy of a browser trick youve heard of clickjacking, now meet keyjacking

An Italian security researcher has rediscovered a trick known as user interface redressing. He uses it to detail some potentially risky behaviour in some versions of Internet Explorer on Windows 7 and 8. The trick is like clickjacking but with the re-dressing done the other way around. In theory, the CAPTCHA acts as a realistic and innocent-looking subterfuge that sneakily tricks you into signalling Run to a dialog you cant see. In practice, IE automatically averted the danger by blocking the download with a yellow security bar.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/06/29/anatomy-of-a-browser-trick-youve-heard-of-clickjacking-now-meet-keyjacking/

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