06 August 2026 - 18:03
Category: IT Fail
Ah good, smart browsers get hijacked.
AI browser extensions got hijacked by unverified emails again. Naturally, we gave machines access to the web.
Source: SecurityWeek
The Full Story
Because giving autonomous machines full access to the internet was clearly a brilliant plan, Zenity found AI browser extensions like Claude and ChatGPT Atlas are easily hijacked by malicious text in emails. Unsuspecting users trusting these helpers had their session data exfiltrated without clicking a single thing, proving human optimism remains unbroken. Shockingly, shielding our network requires restricting these autonomous tools from blindly reading unverified web pages and social media posts.
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