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by cpburns2009 3035 days ago
I'm not that confident. Browsers blindly accept and execute whatever they receive. The more features that get added, the larger surface there is to exploit. A case in point: WebUSB as mentioned in the article.
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The nice thing though is that, although the added attack surface is there, its not really accessible to web pages until a user grants the necessary permissions. Not really all that different from telling users to execute a native app in that respect.

In this case it's not even an exploit really; more like social engineering. (Tricking users into granting the phishing site unrestricted access to their Yubikey, then using that access to trick the user into authenticating a login session for the phishing site.)

Imageine if there is an USB device with new Chrome WebUSB driver (which has necessary permissions) and then vendor's website gets hacked.