This looks and feels really good. Lightweight elements, updated color scheme and new logo. Except one thing - how do I know this smooth and lovely popup asking for my Email and password is authorized / belongs to Paypal.com ?
There's no way to detect if the iframe is located on paypal.com or WeWantYourPassword.com. The best you can do (if you're into webdev) is to fire up your developer console
But as long as the attacker can detect when the user opens devtools all your efforts are futile.
This seamlessly looking UI is a major step back - we've been teaching users to trust in the address bar and nothing else, for 20 years! After a couple of successful payments with such fancy gateways they will stop caring about basic security measures.
I created a ticket here about spoofing attempt. Because I really don't want to type my Paypal password while I'm on Github.com. How do I know Github wasn't hacked or something?
Some good news though: the Coinbase gateway had the exact issue a year ago but now they open sign-in page in a new window. Kudos!



Simple solution, don't use Paypal.
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This is a big security problem with iframes. I have hoped for years that developers of the major browsers should understand this and automatically change the adress bar to the iframes url when the iframe is having focus. Problem solved! And while their at it, allow third-party session cookies as default and instead empty the cookies when the user closes the browser (Safari is the worst with its standard cookie settings, breaking so much functionality)
ReplyDeleteSo funny, couldn't even leave a comment here with my iPad before I allowed all third-party cookies in Safaris cookie settings. Proves my point!
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