{"id":9743,"date":"2026-09-07T19:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/peep-turns-chrome-and-edge-into-post-compromise-backdoors-for-host-command-execution\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:11:43","slug":"peep-turns-chrome-and-edge-into-post-compromise-backdoors-for-host-command-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/peep-turns-chrome-and-edge-into-post-compromise-backdoors-for-host-command-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome\/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium&#8217;s own Secure Preferences\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome\/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium&#8217;s own Secure Preferences\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. &#8220;Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome\/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium&#8217;s own Secure Preferences\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/peep-turns-chrome-and-edge-into-post-compromise-backdoors-for-host-command-execution\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9744,"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\/9743"}],"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=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}