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Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

The company tested 123 cases representing 29 different attack scenarios and found a 23.6 percent attack success rate when browser use operated without safety mitigations. One example involved a malicious email that instructed Claude to delete a user’s emails for “mailbox hygiene” purposes. Without safeguards, Claude followed these instructions and deleted the user’s emails without confirmation. Anthropic says it has …

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