Security News > 2021 > December > Opera browser working on clipboard anti-hijacking feature
The Opera browser team is working on a new clipboard monitoring and protection system called Paste Protection, which aims to prevent content hijacking and snooping.
Opera introduced the new feature in development version 83, and Bleeping Computer has tested it on developer version 84, where it's still present.
More types of data will likely be added to the Paste Protection monitoring scheme when the feature is ready to be rolled out in future stable Opera versions.
The latest available Opera stable version is 82, so the new security feature may land on the next release, scheduled for January 2022.
Clipboard protection is an important security feature that all web browsers should copy as it protects users from various malware infections that attempt to hijack a clipboard.
Secondly, information disclosure through clipboard data capturing is a common feature in many information-stealers, so that the data exfiltration channel is also shut.