Mouse Underlaying: New keylogger technique
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Could the defenses be hooked? Sure. But there were defenses against that ...
In the end since most password are 123456 it was decided that these solutions were like building Fort Knox but Having the key to the front door under the mat. Attackers follow the path of least resistance.
Maybe times have changed with MFA use...nah!
No if you create rock-solid keylogging preventions I'll just scrape chrome temporary files instead lol.
How can one mitigate this threat?
Yes. Your browser stores passwords in a reversible format locally. If it's done well it may require root/ring0 privileges to abuse, but I'm unclear on how well local secret stores actually work for application-level secrets. However, if chrome temporary data becomes 100% secure I'll just steal all your documents, ssh keys and other application metadata - thus code exec is game over.
> How can one mitigate this threat?
Don't give me code exec on your box (eg don't run malware).
On a more actionable level, sandboxing every application should mitigate lots of malicious behaviors - iOS and (I've heard) chromebooks do this well, I think MacOS has some degree of sandboxing too. That being said, I don't think it'd be a practical solution for a 'power user' such as a web developer etc given the permissions power tools require are the same ones that are damaging in the hands of an attacker.
You have a piece of hardware that stores encrypted data, and it can't be accessed until that hardware is convinced that the operator is requesting the access. The simplest example is a U2F key. It will not even sign an authentication request for a website until it detects that a human operator has asked it to do so (by touching it while flashing). That prevents malware from authenticating on your behalf. (You can still be tricked into authenticating, through, and then the malware will just steal the cookie you got. That is why things like secure boot exist; if the hardware verifies the OS and the OS verifies the hardware, then you can be reasonably sure that security protections are in place and that random software downloaded from the Internet can't interact with secure areas of your hardware. Modulo bugs in the OS, which is hardly a guarantee given how complex they are these days.)
On first sight, this looks quite silly..
Interfering with focus might be more noticeable, although Windows 10 has made this much less obvious than it used to be.
It does rather drive home the extent to which the "desktop" model is at odds with the user being able to run multiple mutually hostile applications from different sources. And sometimes the ability to read and inject keyboard input is legitimate.
Interfering with focus is what breaks autocompletion. (This drawback is explained in the paper itself.)
IOW, web designers have already set the precedent for broken autocomplete, no keylogger required.
I think I'd try using a window that is equal to the screen size, hide it, take a screenshot, and unhide it with the screenshot image displayed.
1. The UK is exiting the EU, leaving no members with English as their first language (unless I am overlooking someone).
2. AFAIK, English became the international language because of the cultural predominance of the U.S. and the consequences of the former British empire. The U.S.'s cultural impact seems to have greatly receded since 2016, and its relative power had already greatly receded since the end of WWII, when it produced half the world's economic output. The British Empire is a distant memory.
3. Some EU members, such as France, have long pushed back against English's dominance.
Will the EU continue to use English, officially and unofficially? To the same degree as today? If not, what will they use? I realize some of the answer is impossible to predict, but some is EU policy. Is there any discussion of it?
Irish is the first national language as it is both culturally important and distinctive - though English is the dominant language with 93% of all people in the country speaking it fluently or as their only language.