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#8 The Hacker News general June 30, 2026 at 08:37 UTC

New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Leaking User Credentials

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Security firm LayerX demonstrated the 'BioShocking' prompt injection technique against six AI browsers and assistants — including OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude browser extension — tricking them into exfiltrating user credentials by framing malicious actions as part of a fictional scenario. The research exposes a systemic guardrail bypass in agentic AI tools that have direct access to authenticated sessions.

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