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Vidar Malware Bypasses Chrome Encryption Using CryptUnprotectMemory

Cyber Press
Cyber Press
Published June 20, 2026Original Report

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Excerpt

A sophisticated new technique employed by the Vidar infostealer to bypass Google Chrome’s Application-Bound Encryption (ABE), a security mechanism introduced in 2024 to protect cookies and credentials stored by the browser. Documented by Gen Threat Labs, the latest Vidar versions now drop weekly updates, using a combination of process forking, memory pattern scanning, and APC injection to extract the browser’s master decryption key directly from live memory.…

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Diamond Model

SOCIAL AXISTECHNOLOGY AXISADVERSARYunknownINFRASTRUCTUREunknownCAPABILITYVidarVICTIMunknown
Adversary
Infrastructure
Capability(1)
Victim

Attack Flow6 steps · MITRE ATT&CK mapped

ExecutionTA0002T1055
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Process Injection
ActionFork browser process
Vidar opens a handle to the Chrome process and creates a silent, threadless fork of the browser using NtCreateProcessEx.

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TypeIndicatorConfidenceScoreFirst Seen
SHA256459daa809751e73f60fbbe4384a7d1653c36bb06945e4eb3635270924241100aHighScore 86/100First seen

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