Targeting your browser bookmarks? [Research Saturday]

Published: Oct. 1, 2022, 7 a.m.

David Prefer from SANS sits down with Dave to discuss how a new covert channel exfiltrates\xa0data via a browser's built-in bookmark sync. David goes on to describe how this research will "describe how the ability to synchronize bookmarks across devices introduces a novel vector for data exfiltration and other misuses."\nIn the research,\xa0he shares how he tested his said hypothesis and goes on to describe\xa0how\xa0the interesting find was tested on multiple browsers including Chrome, Edge, Brave and Opera. In his research,\xa0he found that bookmarks are able to keep data and synchronize it, making it easier to infiltrate and extract data from. David shares the rest of his findings,\xa0as well as what organizations and browser developers can do to work on this new threat.\nThe research can be found here:\nBookmark Bruggling: Novel Data Exfiltration with Brugglemark\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices