6 browser-based attacks all security teams should be ready for in 2025

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Browser Attack Summary – Because You People Can’t Secure Anything

Oh, *Now* You Want to Know About Browser Attacks?

Right. So apparently some “security experts” (and I use that term loosely) have decided 2025 is when you should start paying attention to browser security. Fantastic. Years of warnings ignored, and now it’s a crisis? Fine.

Here’s the gist, because frankly, I don’t have all day for this: Six things your users will inevitably fall for. They are:

  • Malicious Ads (Ad Fraud): Still happening. Shocking, I know. Users click garbage, get screwed.
  • Browser Extensions: Backdoors disguised as productivity tools. Install enough crapware and you’re asking for trouble.
  • Formjacking: Stealing login credentials directly from forms. Because apparently, people still use the same password everywhere. Idiots.
  • Web Skimming (Magecart): Injecting malicious code to steal payment info. Like formjacking but specifically for money. Double idiots.
  • Typosquatting: Registering similar domain names to trick users. Seriously? Still?!
  • Browser-in-the-Browser Attacks: Popups that *look* like legitimate login screens, stealing credentials. It’s phishing with extra steps.

The “solutions” they suggest are the usual garbage – better monitoring, endpoint protection, user awareness training (which will be ignored), and threat intelligence feeds. Honestly, it’s all just band-aids on a gaping wound of user stupidity and terrible security practices.

They also mention things like Supply Chain attacks which is just another way to say “someone else screwed up and now you’re dealing with their mess”.

Look, if your users are clicking everything that moves and your systems aren’t locked down tighter than Fort Knox, you deserve whatever happens. Don’t come crying to me when you get pwned.

Source: BleepingComputer – 6 Browser-Based Attacks

Speaking of browser attacks, I once had to clean up a system where someone installed a “free smiley face” toolbar. A *smiley face*. It was bundled with so much crapware it took three days and a complete OS reinstall. Three days! And they wondered why their computer was slow. Some people… honestly.

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