KeePass is a popular password manager, but it’s vulnerable to a newly discovered exploit that could let hackers steal your master password in plain text.
The best password managers are meant to keep all your logins and credit card info safe and secure, but a major new vulnerability has just put users of the KeePass password manager at serious risk of being breached.
Password managers like KeePass lock up all your login info to keep it safe, and all that data is sealed behind a master password. You enter your master password to access everything stored in your vault, which makes it a valuable target for hackers. Recommended Videos That’s because it extracts the master password from KeePass’s memory. As the researcher explains, this can be obtained in a variety of ways: “It doesn’t matter where the memory comes from — can be the process dump, swap file , hibernation file or RAM dump of the entire system.”
A fix is coming The one caveat to this security breach is it requires physical access to the machine from which the master password is to be extracted. But that’s not necessarily always a problem — as we’ve seen in the LastPass exploit saga, hackers can gain access to a target’s computer using vulnerable remote access apps installed on the computer.
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