{"id":957687,"date":"2025-08-26T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957687"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:28:36","slug":"perplexitys-comet-ai-browser-had-a-major-security-flaw-that-put-users-emails-passwords-and-banking-data-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/26\/perplexitys-comet-ai-browser-had-a-major-security-flaw-that-put-users-emails-passwords-and-banking-data-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity\u2019s Comet AI browser had a major security flaw that put users\u2019 emails, passwords and banking data at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity&#8217;s AI-based web browser Comet suffered from a major vulnerability that potentially allowed bad actors to gain access to sensitive user data, such as emails, banking passwords, and other details, through a technique called indirect prompt injection.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Comet is among a slew of new-age, AI-based browsers that use large language models in order to follow tasks autonomously on a user&#8217;s behalf. Using its built-in AI, the browser is capable of completing tasks like summarizing web pages, emails, calendar events, managing tabs, and even answering questions about the content on their screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity&#8217;s AI-based web browser Comet suffered from a major vulnerability that potentially allowed bad actors to gain access to sensitive user data, such as emails, banking passwords, and other details, through a technique called indirect prompt injection. Notably, Comet is among a slew of new-age, AI-based browsers that use large language models in order to follow tasks autonomously on a user&#8217;s behalf. Using its built-in AI, the browser is capable of completing tasks like summarizing web pages, emails, calendar events, managing tabs, and even answering questions about the content on their screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}