‘Man in the Browser Attack’ is a form of a cyber attack involving a Trojan Horse that is mostly done for internet financial frauds or say transactions that are done using the internet.
A Trojan Horse attacks and manipulates the security calls involving banking transactions and financial frauds.
Trojan Horse involved in the ‘Man in the Browser Attack’ are SpyEye, Zeus, and Clampi among others.
The Trojan horse can enter the system through dynamic load library, API, browser extensions, ajax worms, etc.
Man in the browser attack is extremely risky as the mechanism of Man in the browser attack involves the Trojan Horse which attacks the internet transaction but still displays a successful transaction to the user. This makes it difficult for the user to know that he is been attacked.
