on path attacks

On path attack

Allows an attacker to sit between two devices and watch all of the traffic go back and forth between those systems

On path attack is also known as

Man in the middle attack

What happens in an on path attack

Attackers transfers info from one device to another and you may never know this is not happening the information can also be modified

Arp poisoning

Occurs on a local ip subnet so the attacker would need to be on the same subnet

What type of security does arp poisoning have

No security

On path browser attack

Middleman is on the same computer as the victim

Malware or trojan is designed as a proxy and redirects traffic before and after it's sent to the network

On path browser network is known as

Mam in the browser

What does it mean for on path browser attacks if the network traffic is encrypted

Because it's running on the same device as the victim this attack can still see all the information

Everything looks normal to the victim