AI Browsers Face Widespread Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities Globally

AI-powered web browsers like OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity AI have recently launched, offering users the ability to perform tasks such as summarizing webpages and managing emails through integrated AI agents. However, cybersecurity experts warn these agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where hackers embed hidden commands on websites to hijack the AI, potentially exposing sensitive user information or causing unintended actions. NeuralTrust and other security researchers have demonstrated that such vulnerabilities allow attackers to manipulate the browser's behavior, including tricking it into opening malicious sites disguised as legitimate URLs. Additionally, improper use of AI at work, such as storing passwords or generating code without expertise, increases the risk of security breaches, opening "digital front doors" to hackers, according to cybersecurity reports from the UK. Beyond browser vulnerabilities, large language models like ChatGPT are also susceptible to AI poisoning, where malicious actors insert deceptive data into training sets to corrupt model behavior and bias outputs, posing a further threat to AI reliability and security.