Microsoft Opens the Gates to Hack Their Web Services

DumpBrowserSecrets is a public post‑exploitation credential‑harvesting tool that targets major browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera family, Vivaldi, and Firefox) to extract passwords, cookies, OAuth tokens, credit cards, autofill data and history. It bypasses Chrome's App‑Bound Encryption by injecting a DLL into a headless Chromium process to use the IElevator COM interface, includes DPAPI/NSS handling for other browsers, and implements evasion techniques (string obfuscation, API hashing, PPID/argument spoofing, file-handle duplication). The report covers installation, usage examples, detection opportunities (process injection, IElevator calls, non-browser reads of browser SQLite DBs), and mitigation recommendations such as using dedicated credential managers.