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DumpBrowserSecrets is a publicly available post‑exploitation tool that harvests browser-stored credentials and session tokens from major browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera family, Vivaldi, Firefox). The report details how the tool bypasses Chrome's App‑Bound Encryption (Chrome 127+) by injecting a DLL into a headless Chromium process to call the IElevator COM interface, handles DPAPI and NSS encryption for other browsers, includes operational evasion features (string obfuscation, API hashing, PPID/argument spoofing, file-handle duplication), and outputs structured JSON suitable for red team use or malicious reuse; its capabilities enable rapid account takeover and lateral movement if deployed on compromised developer or enterprise endpoints.