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by Rygian 31 days ago
How long until a canvas is used to render the full chrome of a web browser (e.g. including the TLS padlock), showing a fake benign URL in the (fake) address bar while having the user interact with a malicious page?
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That's why we have "youtube.com is now full screen" message.
Yes, but this "emergency" UI of the OS could be improved I think. (Also that functionality could have been build easily with normal DOM and JS, cancel and override all events, etc)
Already done, it's called a "browser-in-browser" attack.