Software
Pastejack attack turns your clipboard into a threat
Reported by theregister.co.uk
Once, you could use HTML/CSS to manipulate the clipboard, but it was not a good way to do so. Now a security bod has worked out how to do it in JavaScript and reckons it’s a lot more dangerous.
At first glance, it looks like purely a stunt-attack, except for this: a phishing e-mail purporting to be from tech support could trick a victim into dropping a message into a terminal window and executing it – not realising that what’s in the clipboard got changed on the way.
