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DumpBrowserSecrets is a post‑exploitation credential harvesting tool that targets major browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera variants, Vivaldi, and Firefox) to extract saved passwords, session cookies, OAuth refresh tokens, credit card data, autofill entries, and history. It bypasses Chrome's App‑Bound Encryption by spawning a headless Chromium process and injecting a DLL that calls the IElevator COM interface to decrypt the app_bound_encrypted_key, includes DPAPI and NSS handling for other browsers, and implements evasion techniques (string obfuscation, API hashing, PPID/argument spoofing, file handle duplication). The report covers usage, attack scenarios, detection signals, and mitigations, and emphasizes the tool's relevance for assessing credential exposure on compromised developer endpoints.