{"id":9213,"date":"2026-08-03T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/google-password-manager-attacks-could-let-malware-hijack-passkey-protected-accounts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:13:11","slug":"google-password-manager-attacks-could-let-malware-hijack-passkey-protected-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/google-password-manager-attacks-could-let-malware-hijack-passkey-protected-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMalware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim&#8217;s passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim&#8217;s screen.<\/p>\n<p>Unit 42 detailed three attack paths against Chrome&#8217;s Google Password Manager cloud authenticator, which it calls Pass-ta-key, Silver Pass-ta-key and Golden Pass-ta-key; the strongest targets the master key\u00a0Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim&#8217;s passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim&#8217;s screen.<\/p>\n<p>Unit 42 detailed three attack paths against Chrome&#8217;s Google Password Manager cloud authenticator, which it calls Pass-ta-key, Silver Pass-ta-key and Golden Pass-ta-key; the strongest targets the master key\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMalware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim&#8217;s passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim&#8217;s screen. Unit 42 detailed three attack paths against Chrome&#8217;s Google Password Manager cloud authenticator, which it calls Pass-ta-key, Silver Pass-ta-key and Golden Pass-ta-key; the strongest&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/google-password-manager-attacks-could-let-malware-hijack-passkey-protected-accounts\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}