The Native Menace: Host-to-Browser Cross-Boundary Attacks via Native Messaging

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Jyotirmay Chauhan, Rownak Islam, Jason Polakis)

Summary by Cyber Security News4 Nov 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2611.04291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern browsers are complex software platforms that users can customize through browser extensions to further expand their functionality. Extensions derive their functionality from privileged browser APIs that expose powerful capabilities. Prior work has extensively studied how malicious webpages or extensions can target those capabilities.

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