Re:Browser auto-fill phishing
by robert_tweed on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:19PM
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This is a very old exploit. The earliest references I could find were from 2010.
As other comments have noted, it isn't trivial to fix completely, so I believe most browsers just haven't bothered at all, but have implemented some extra protection for credit cards (and of course, CVV numbers are never stored in the first place).
As other comments have noted, it isn't trivial to fix completely, so I believe most browsers just haven't bothered at all, but have implemented some extra protection for credit cards (and of course, CVV numbers are never stored in the first place).