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December 29, 2017

Infos trafic 07
No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers

We show how third-party scripts exploit browsers’ built-in login managers (also called password managers) to retrieve and exfiltrate user identifiers without user awareness. To the best of our knowledge, our research is the first to show that login managers are being abused by third-party scripts for the purposes of web tracking.