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<blockquote data-quote="Vitali Ortzi" data-source="post: 1106152" data-attributes="member: 57714"><p>lowest false positive extension and most lightweight for pishing although not the best is Microsoft defender and since Microsoft developed the extension it should only very slightly increase the attack surface and won't cause issues with performance like breaking page pre rendering , back forward cache or other security based ones that may allow an attack to inject code with the extension privileges</p><p></p><p></p><p>Example of performance based bad practice from debug bear research </p><p>[CODE]Among extensions with over 1 million users we find 6 that break the back/forward cache:</p><p></p><p>LastPass Password Manager (10 million users)</p><p>Avast Online Security (8 million users)</p><p>Avira Browser Safety (6 million users)</p><p>Norton Password Manager (5 million users)</p><p>Snap&Read (4 million users)</p><p>Microsoft Editor (2 million users)</p><p></p><p>Overall 1.7% of the top 5,000 extensions break the back/forward cache[/CODE]</p><p></p><p></p><p>You can read here about attacking browser extensions</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://github.blog/security/vulnerability-research/attacking-browser-extensions/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vitali Ortzi, post: 1106152, member: 57714"] lowest false positive extension and most lightweight for pishing although not the best is Microsoft defender and since Microsoft developed the extension it should only very slightly increase the attack surface and won't cause issues with performance like breaking page pre rendering , back forward cache or other security based ones that may allow an attack to inject code with the extension privileges Example of performance based bad practice from debug bear research [CODE]Among extensions with over 1 million users we find 6 that break the back/forward cache: LastPass Password Manager (10 million users) Avast Online Security (8 million users) Avira Browser Safety (6 million users) Norton Password Manager (5 million users) Snap&Read (4 million users) Microsoft Editor (2 million users) Overall 1.7% of the top 5,000 extensions break the back/forward cache[/CODE] You can read here about attacking browser extensions [URL unfurl="true"]https://github.blog/security/vulnerability-research/attacking-browser-extensions/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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