Your bank has contacted you and informed you they recognized an unusual login with your username and password on their website. As a precaution they have locked your account and stated the login came from a foreign country. You run a security scan on your PC which finds malware. The description of the malware states that it intercepts normal web traffic from your browser executable. What type of attack best describes this?
A Man in the Browser (MitB is a type of man in the middle (MitM) attack using a Trojan Horse to infect the victim's computer. Once installed the trojan will attempt to use known vulnerabilities in a browser's executable to intercept or modify web traffic. A successful MiTB can occur even with SSL/TLS and without the web application being aware of the attack.
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