A comprehensive survey of recent internet measurement techniques for cyber security

MS Pour, C Nader, K Friday, E Bou-Harb - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

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M Safaei Pour, C Nader, K Friday, E Bou-Harb - Computers & Security, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
abstract As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become
more vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

CoCo: Efficient Browser Extension Vulnerability Detection via Coverage-guided, Concurrent Abstract Interpretation

J Yu, S Li, J Zhu, Y Cao - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Extensions complement web browsers with additional functionalities and also bring new
vulnerability venues, allowing privilege escalations from adversarial web pages to use …

Doublex: Statically detecting vulnerable data flows in browser extensions at scale

A Fass, DF Somé, M Backes, B Stock - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Browser extensions are popular to enhance users' browsing experience. By design, they
have access to security-and privacy-critical APIs to perform tasks that web applications …

On measuring vulnerable javascript functions in the wild

M Kluban, M Mannan, A Youssef - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
JavaScript is often rated as the most popular programming language for the development of
both client-side and server-side applications, and is currently used in almost all websites …

Hardening the security analysis of browser extensions

B Eriksson, P Picazo-Sanchez… - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Browser extensions boost the browsing experience by a range of features from automatic
translation and grammar correction to password management, ad blocking, and remote …

Understanding and mitigating remote code execution vulnerabilities in cross-platform ecosystem

F Xiao, Z Yang, J Allen, G Yang, G Williams… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
JavaScript cross-platform frameworks are becoming increasingly popular. They help
developers easily and conveniently build cross-platform applications while just needing only …

What is in the Chrome Web Store?

S Hsu, M Tran, A Fass - Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper is the first attempt at providing a holistic view of the Chrome Web Store (CWS).
We leverage historical data provided by ChromeStats to study global trends in the CWS and …

Defending novice user privacy: An evaluation of default web browser configurations

K Radivojevic, N Clark, A Klempay, P Brenner - Computers & Security, 2024 - Elsevier
Cyber novices often enter sensitive data into web browsers for routine activities such as
online shopping and bill payments, making them targets for malicious entities, including …

Characterizing cryptocurrency-themed malicious browser extensions

K Wang, Y Ling, Y Zhang, Z Yu, H Wang, G Bai… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Due to the surging popularity of various cryptocurrencies in recent years, a large number of
browser extensions have been developed as portals to access relevant services, such as …