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Also known as MITB, MitB, MIB, MiB, man-in-the-mobile, MitMo

Man-in-the-browser (MITB, MitB, MIB, MiB), a form of Internet threat related to man-in-the-middle (MITM), is a proxy Trojan horse that infects a web browser by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in browser security to modify web pages, modify transaction content or insert additional transactions, all in a covert fashion invisible to both the user and host web application. A MitB attack will be successful irrespective of whether security mechanisms such as SSL/PKI and/or two- or three-factor authentication solutions are in place. A MitB attack may be countered by using out-of-band transaction

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  • Description
  • Examples
  • Protection
  • [[Antivirus]]
  • Hardened software
  • Out-of-band transaction verification
  • Man-in-the-Mobile
  • Web fraud detection
  • Related attacks
  • Proxy trojans
  • Man-in-the-middle
  • Boy-in-the-browser
  • Clickjacking
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Man-in-the-browser (MITB, MitB, MIB, MiB), a form of Internet threat related to man-in-the-middle (MITM), is a proxy Trojan horse that infects a web browser by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in browser security to modify web pages, modify transaction content or insert additional transactions, all in a covert fashion invisible to both the user and host web application. A MitB attack will be successful irrespective of whether security mechanisms such as SSL/PKI and/or two- or three-factor authentication solutions are in place. A MitB attack may be countered by using out-of-band transaction verification, although SMS verification can be defeated by man-in-the-mobile (MitMo) malware infection on the mobile phone. Trojans may be detected and removed by antivirus software, but a 2011 report concluded that additional measures on top of antivirus software were needed.

A related, simpler attack is the boy-in-the-browser (BitB, BITB).

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