Article 1EXEG Pastejack attack turns your clipboard into a threat

Pastejack attack turns your clipboard into a threat

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Story ImageCTRL-V vector turns "not evil" into "evil" without the target noticing

Once, you could use HTML/CSS to manipulate the clipboard, but it was not a good way to do so. Now a security bod has worked out how to do it in JavaScript and reckons it's a lot more dangerous."

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