Security Firm SquareX raised concerns about potential security vulnerabilities within AI-powered web browsers, GovInfoSecurity reports. AI browsers aim to automate simple internet tasks, providing the browsers with access to personal information. The browsers potentially lack the security awareness to ensure if a user’s task is privacy protective, making user data vulnerable. SquareX founder Vivek Ramachandran said AI browsers are “trained to complete tasks, not to be security aware. This makes it trivial for attackers to trick browsers like Comet into performing malicious tasks, by convincing them that it is a necessary part of the workflow they are completing.”
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