"New Tool Bypasses Google Chrome's New Cookie Encryption System"

The "Chrome-App-Bound-Encryption-Decryption" tool released by cybersecurity researcher Alexander Hagenah can bypass Google's new App-Bound encryption cookie-theft defenses and extract saved credentials from the Chrome web browser. He released the tool after noticing that others were discovering similar bypasses. The tool does what multiple infostealer operations have added to their malware, but its public availability puts Chrome users who store sensitive data in their browsers at risk. This article continues to discuss the new that bypasses Google Chrome's new cookie encryption system.

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