A vulnerability in #Perplexity #Comet, an #AIbrowser, allows attackers to inject malicious instructions into webpage content. These instructions can be executed by the AI assistant, #bypassing traditional #websecurity mechanisms. The attack demonstrates the need for new security architectures to prevent #unauthorisedactions and #dataexfiltration. https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave

The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.

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