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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.
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.