{"id":234888,"date":"2026-04-10T03:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/google-chrome-adds-infostealer-protection-against-session-cookie-theft"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:27:19","slug":"google-chrome-adds-infostealer-protection-against-session-cookie-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/google-chrome-adds-infostealer-protection-against-session-cookie-theft","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome adds infostealer protection against session cookie theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-chrome-adds-infostealer-protection-against-session-cookie-theft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has rolled out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) protection in Chrome 146 for Windows, designed to block info-stealing malware from harvesting session cookies.<\/p>\n<p>MacOS users will benefit from this security feature in a future Chrome release that has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>The new protection has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-chrome-feature-aims-to-stop-hackers-from-using-stolen-cookies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced in 2024<\/a>, and it works by cryptographically linking a user\u2019s session to their specific hardware, such as a computer\u2019s security chip \u2014 the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) on Windows and the Secure Enclave on macOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has rolled out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) protection in Chrome 146 for Windows, designed to block info-stealing malware from harvesting session cookies. MacOS users will benefit from this security feature in a future Chrome release that has yet to be announced. The new protection has been announced in 2024, and it works by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}