How to Protect Identities and Sessions from Infostealers

Infostealers are stealthy malware that harvest credentials, session tokens, cookies, autofill data, and financial information to enable account takeover, identity theft, and data breaches; this vendor blog reviews their history (e.g., Zeus, Emotet, Racoon, Lumma), attack lifecycle, consequences, and argues that deep browser integration (as implemented by CrowdStrike) is required to prevent session hijacking and exfiltration that extension-based tools cannot reliably stop.