{
  "id": 6155831,
  "title": "PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/peep-turns-chrome-and-edge-into-post-compromise-backdoors-for-host",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-07T18:12:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/peep-turns-chrome-and-edge-into-post.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. \"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's own Secure Preferences",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}