JavaScript Runs Without Identity Verification

Dec 22, 2025

Failure Pattern

Any site can run large amounts of script, such as JavaScript, with no identity verification or isolation.

 

User Impact

The user loads a page and unknowingly runs a full malware workload inside their browser.

 

Underlying Causes

Unlimited page-level JS execution
No cryptographic identity of JS workloads
Browser trust model assumes benign scripts

 

Trust-Native Resolution

Each JS execution context becomes a DTL workload requiring identity before running.

 

Broken Trust Assumption

Many of the most damaging breaches of the past decade occurred in environments that were fully authenticated, encrypted, and compliant.

Incidents including SolarWinds, NotPetya, Capital One, and MOVEit show a consistent pattern: attackers succeeded by inheriting trust, not by breaking it. Security controls validated access, but not intent.