Most enterprise work now happens in the browser. SaaS applications, identity providers, admin consoles, and AI tools have made it the primary interface for accessing data and getting work done.
Yet the browser remains peripheral to most security architectures. Detection and investigation still focus on endpoints, networks, and email, layers that sit around the browser, not inside it.
The result is a growing disconnect. When employee-facing threats occur, security teams often struggle to answer a basic question: what actually happens in the browser?
That gap defines an entire class of modern attacks.
At Keep Aware, we’ve called this a “safe haven” problem for attackers, where the target has now become this central point of failure
Browser Attacks Seen in 2026 Leaving Little Traditional Evidence
What makes browser-only attacks hard to deal with isn’t a single technique. It’s that multiple attack types all collapse into the same visibility gap. We continue to see these attacks into 2026:
Common browser-based attack types
ClickFix and UI-Driven Social Engineering
Possibly the largest browser-driven attack vector in 2025, users are guided by fake browser messages or prompts to copy, paste, or submit sensitive information themselves. No payload is delivered, no exploit fires, just normal user actions that leave almost no investigation trail.
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