Some Top 100,000 Websites Placing Keylogger to Collect Everything You Type

The majority of top-ranked websites (100,000 websites) include malicious keyloggers that are designed to capture every single character that you type or enter in forms before submitting like:- Signing up for a Newsletter Making a hotel reservation Checking out online The top 100,000 websites were crawled and analyzed by researchers at the following universities:- The University of Lausanne The KU Leuven The Radboud University The aim of this study is to look at how users might interact with a site while inside the European Union and while inside the USA. In-depth Analysis The researchers determined that there were 1,844 websites that recorded the email of EU users without their permission and that 2,950 of these gathered a US user’s email address without their consent.

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