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DumpBrowserSecrets is a publicly documented post-exploitation tool that harvests browser-stored credentials and session tokens from major browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera variants, Vivaldi, and Firefox). It implements an App-Bound Encryption bypass for Chromium-based browsers by spawning a headless Chromium process, injecting a DLL via Early Bird APC to use the IElevator COM interface to decrypt the app_bound_encrypted_key, and extracts data from on-disk SQLite/JSON stores; for Firefox it uses NSS decryption directly. The report details extracted data types, operational evasion (string obfuscation, API hashing, PPID/argument spoofing, handle duplication), usage examples, detection opportunities, and mitigation recommendations for enterprise environments.