JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies

JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies Ravie LakshmananSep 07, 2026Malvertising / Web Security Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including RC4-protected strings, control-flow flattening, proxy functions, and operation wrappers," Check Point Research said in a technical report published last week. JSCeal was first documented by Check Point in July 2025, highlighting the threat actors' use of fake cryptocurrency trading sites to which unsuspecting users are redirected via malicious ads on Facebook and Google. The counterfeit sites instruct them to download bogus installers for TradingView that lead to the deployment of the malware. The activity…