Analyzing the dangers posed by Chrome Extensions

• Main Authors: BAUER, Lujo, CAI, Shaoying, JIA, Limin, PASSARO, Timothy, TIAN, Yuan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4193; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5196/viewcontent/cns2014_browserattacks.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A common characteristic of modern web browsers is that their functionality can be extended via third-party addons. In this paper we focus on Chrome extensions, to which the Chrome browser exports a rich API: extensions can potentially make network requests, access the local file system, get low-leve...