Hacktron researchers disclosed a one-click universal XSS (UXSS) in Perplexity Comet, a Chromium-based AI browser with the Comet Assistant agent extension. The extension's manifest trusts the wildcard https://.perplexity.ai/ in externallyconnectable, so a single XSS on any perplexity.ai subdomain can reach privileged extension message hand…
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Chromium-based AI browser that lets an attacker monitor all open tabs and capture OAuth authorization codes for any site, effectively breaking the same-origin policy. Atlas exposes Mojo IPC bindings to all .chatgpt.com and .openai.com origins, so a single XS…
WhatsApp help pages carried hidden instructions for its WhatsApp Support with AI chatbot. They told it not to recommend a data protection authority to users who could not delete their accounts, and not to cite privacy laws such as the GDPR once a user mentioned a lawyer, lawsuit or court. This contradicts WhatsApp's privacy policy for Eur…
F5 Labs' 2025 Advanced Persistent Bots Report analyzes more than 200 billion web and mobile API transactions from F5 Bot Defense customers between November 2023 and September 2024. It finds that 10.2% (21.22 billion) of requests were bots or automation. Of these, 4.8% were unwanted bots mitigated by F5, 3.5% were flagged automation and 2.…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 41, 2026) covers law enforcement actions, a phishing campaign and an actively exploited vulnerability. The most urgent item is CVE-2026-21589, a critical (CVSS 9.3) unauthenticated arbitrary file access flaw in Atlassian Data Center products. Exploitation attempts began about two hours after a public …