Researchers Trick Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes

Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence AI capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. The attack, at its core, takes advantage of AI browsers' tendency to...

Experts Find AI Browsers Can Be Tricked by PromptFix Exploit to Run Malicious Hidden Prompts

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new prompt injection technique called PromptFix that tricks a generative artificial intelligence GenAI model into carrying out unintended actions by embedding the malicious instruction inside a fake CAPTCHA check on a web page. Described by Guardio La...