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DumpBrowserSecrets is a publicly available post‑exploitation tool designed to extract credentials and session material from major browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera variants, Vivaldi, and Firefox). It bypasses Chrome's App‑Bound Encryption by injecting a DLL into a headless Chromium process to use the IElevator COM interface and retrieves DPAPI or NSS‑protected secrets where applicable; the tool outputs structured JSON, includes evasion features (string obfuscation, API hashing, PPID/argument spoofing, handle duplication), and is intended for red‑team assumed‑breach exercises but presents a realistic credential theft threat enabling lateral movement and cloud takeover.