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by blintz 2427 days ago
Even if the malware hijacks your session tokens, using something like WebAuthn prevents silent theft of a password, which is much more powerful (allows creation of new sessions).
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If your host is infected with malware but it can't steal your passwords due to hardware boundaries, it still has access to your host at a pretty reasonable permission level.

In most corporate environments that's far more damaging than getting persistence in a handful of webapps.

Also, 2FA solves this exact issue.