Dumping saved passwords out of Google Chrome
In this section, we will discuss another password-hacking technique. This technique was originally created to recover your password if you forget it. Here we will take advantage and hack the saved password remotely. For this attack to work successfully, your target should be using Google Chrome, and they should have previously saved the login password. Let's look at how this works. Log into your Facebook account. You will notice a prompt at the top-right corner of the screen, which asks you whether to save the password with a Save password
button. If our target has clicked on Save password
, then we will be able to grab that password remotely.
We will now see how to do that. To do this, we will Log out
from Facebook first.
Acquiring the password remotely
Let's get started by understanding how Google Chrome stores and recovers the saved password in the first place:
So, the first fact is, we should know that Google Chrome uses the Windows login password...