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Browser Security
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Browser credential stores, cookies, session tokens, extensions, enterprise browser policy, and web-based security controls.
Zero-Click Spyware Was Delivered Through Online Ads: How AdFection Worked
Citizen Lab traced zero-click spyware from a targeted ad to 45 Al Jazeera devices. Here is how AdFection worked and what defenders should block.
GPT-5.6 Sol Helped Build a Full Chrome Exploit in Six Days
XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol agents and expert researchers to chain three Chrome bugs in six days. Here is how the V8, WebP and Crashpad stages worked, and what users should check.
Firefox Enterprise Is Not Firefox ESR: What Mozilla’s New Browser Adds
Mozilla’s new Firefox Enterprise adds a self-hosted console, DLP, AI controls and SIEM integration. Here is how it differs from Firefox ESR and what IT teams should test.
Chrome’s 7 Billion-Notification Cleanup Turns Web Alerts Into a Security Setting
Google says Chrome reduced unwanted Android web notifications by more than 7 billion a day in the first quarter of 2026. The change is more than inbox cleanup: Chrome is treating notification permission as revocable trust, using Safety Hub, Safe Browsing, abuse-network detection, and server-side Push API throttling to cut off scam and malware campaigns.
Chrome’s AI Bug Surge Makes Browser Restarts a Security Deadline
Google says Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 security bugs, more than the prior 23 milestones combined, as AI-assisted vulnerability discovery accelerates. The result is a push toward twice-weekly security releases, dynamic patching, and stricter enterprise browser-restart policies.
SourTrade Malvertising Makes Browsers Build Malware in Memory
Confiant says the SourTrade malvertising campaign impersonates TradingView, Solana, and Luno, then uses service workers and shared workers to make a victim’s browser assemble a unique Windows malware file in memory. The technique weakens hash-based detection and gives crypto users another reason to avoid sponsored-download paths.
ACR Stealer Turns ClickFix Lures Into Browser-Token Theft
Microsoft says ACR Stealer activity rose across customer environments from late April to mid-June, with campaigns using ClickFix lures, WebDAV, MSHTA, obfuscated PowerShell, and even JPEG-hidden payloads. Security teams should treat infections as token and document-exposure events, not just password resets.