2.4 Point of Attacks
It is known that Online Fraudsters can successfully target to Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera , on the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X Platform by using Trojans.The trojans can do the following: In the Man-in-the-Browser attacks, Trojans uses some kind of properties of Internet web browsers for this purpose: • Browser Helper Objects: These are dynamically-loaded libraries (dll) loaded by Internet Explorer(IE) upon start-up. They run inside IE, and have full access to IE and full access to the DOM tree, etc. Developing BHOs is very easy. • Extensions: It is similar to Browser Helper Objects for other Browsers such as Firefox (hereafter, both will be referred to as extensions). Developing Extensions is easy. UserScripts Scripts that are running in the browser (Firefox/Greasemonkey+Opera). Developing UserScripts is very easy.