Executive Summary

Security researchers at Forever Security discovered a malicious browser extension that can hijack the built‑in AI assistants of five Chromium‑based products—Gemini Live in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Opera Neon, and the Claude Chrome extension—by granting the attacker access with a single click.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: The Hacker News - Published Date: 2026-09-16T14:36:44+00:00 - Category: threat-intel

Original Description: Security researchers at Forever Security have shown that one ordinary browser extension could take control of the AI assistants built into five Chromium-based products: Gemini Live in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Opera Neon and the Claude in Chrome extension. Once the extension was installed, it could access each product's built-in AI with a single click. On Comet, Edge,

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