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France slaps Google with €325M fine for violating cookie regulations
The French data protection authority has fined Google €325 million ($378 million) for violating cookie regulations and displaying ads between Gmail users' emails without their consent.
- September 04, 2025
- 11:58 AM
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New tool bypasses Google Chrome’s new cookie encryption system
A researcher has released a tool to bypass Google's new App-Bound encryption cookie-theft defenses and extract saved credentials from the Chrome web browser.
- October 28, 2024
- 04:59 PM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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CISA: Hackers abuse F5 BIG-IP cookies to map internal servers
CISA is warning that threat actors have been observed abusing unencrypted persistent F5 BIG-IP cookies to identify and target other internal devices on the targeted network.
- October 11, 2024
- 12:27 PM
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Infostealer malware bypasses Chrome’s new cookie-theft defenses
Infostealer malware developers released updates claiming to bypass Google Chrome's recently introduced feature App-Bound Encryption to protect sensitive data such as cookies.
- September 24, 2024
- 01:31 PM
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Facebook ads for Windows desktop themes push info-stealing malware
Cybercriminals use Facebook business pages and advertisements to promote fake Windows themes that infect unsuspecting users with the SYS01 password-stealing malware.
- July 15, 2024
- 09:00 AM
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Google Chrome reduced cookie requests to improve performance
Google shared details on a recently introduced Chrome feature that changes how cookies are requested, with early tests showing increased performance across all platforms.
- June 05, 2024
- 06:20 PM
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PayPal files patent for new method to detect stolen cookies
PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when "super-cookie" is stolen, which could improve the cookie-based authentication mechanism and limit account takeover attacks.
- February 25, 2024
- 11:02 AM
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Google: Malware abusing API is standard token theft, not an API issue
Google is downplaying reports of malware abusing an undocumented Google Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies when previously stolen ones have expired.
- January 06, 2024
- 11:40 AM
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Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to ‘revive’ cookies, hijack accounts
Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named "MultiLogin" to restore expired authentication cookies and log into users' accounts, even if an account's password was reset.
- December 29, 2023
- 11:13 AM
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Malware dev says they can revive expired Google auth cookies
The Lumma information-stealer malware (aka 'LummaC2') is promoting a new feature that allegedly allows cybercriminals to restore expired Google cookies, which can be used to hijack Google accounts.
- November 21, 2023
- 02:29 PM
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Okta says its support system was breached using stolen credentials
Okta says attackers accessed files containing cookies and session tokens uploaded by customers to its support management system after breaching it using stolen credentials.
- October 20, 2023
- 02:41 PM
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Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners
The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit.
- September 29, 2022
- 11:07 AM
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