"Chrome on Android: Phishing Attackers Can Now Trick You with Fake Address Bar"
A new inception attack brings attention to the importance of displaying the URL bar on a mobile device as the possibility of phishing attackers abusing the concealment of the URL bar has been highlighted. According to a developer, named James Fisher, the Google Chrome feature for Android that enables more screen space by hiding information about the URL can be abused by a phishing attacker to trick users into thinking a phishing web page is a legitimate website. This article continues to discuss potentials ways in which this URL bar-concealing feature on Google Chrome for Android could be abused by phishing attackers and other Google features that were discovered to be exploitable by scammers.
ZDNet reports "Chrome on Android: Phishing Attackers Can Now Trick You with Fake Address Bar"