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‘Tabnapping’ Phishing Tactic Surfaces

A Mozilla employee outlines a new attack tactic dubbed “tabnapping” that can dupe users into giving up passwords by secretly changing already-open browser tabs. The attack preys on the perceived immutability of tabs, Aza Raskin, Mozilla’s creative lead, spelled out the scenario. Chrome, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari in Mac OS X 10.6 all showed the fake Gmail tab and contents. Some browsers were more susceptible than others, but some were more resilient than others.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2125224/-tabnapping–phishing-tactic-surfaces.html

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