Session hijacking is on the rise, and is rapidly becoming a go-to technique for attackers aiming to bypass authentication and hijack web sessions. Microsoft reports that token replay attacks have more than doubled year over year, showing that session hijacking is now occurring at levels comparable to password-based intrusions. Additionally, 15% of security misconfigurations tested by IBM in 2024 showed that applications were vulnerable to session hijacking. At its core, session hijacking occurs when an attacker intercepts or takes control of an active web session, often through tactics such as token guessing, cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), session replay, or man-in-the-middle attacks. Stolen session credentials are particularly dangerous because they function as “digital master keys,” granting intruders the same access rights as legitimate users without requiring password verification. To counter this growing threat, the World Wide Web …