Browsers
Browser Wars, Continued: Why Everyone Is Building Their Own AI Browser
Written by Vivek Ramachandran, SquareX Founder, for Forbes Technology Council. This article originally appeared here.Source: GettyIf you lived through the 1990s, you’ll remember the first of the “ browser wars,” where Netscape and ...
2025 Year of Browser Bugs Recap: A Year of Unmasking Critical Browser Vulnerabilities
At the beginning of this year, we launched the Year of Browser Bugs (YOBB) project, a commitment to research and share critical architectural vulnerabilities in the browser. Inspired by the iconic Months ...
Prompt Injection in AI Browsers
This is why AIs are not ready to be personal assistants: A new attack called ‘CometJacking’ exploits URL parameters to pass to Perplexity’s Comet AI browser hidden instructions that allow access to ...
SquareX Wins Multiple Cybersecurity Awards in H2 2025
SquareX recognized by leading industry organizations for our innovative approach to browser securityThe second half of 2025 has been a milestone period for SquareX. As pioneers in the Browser Detection and Response (BDR) ...
3 Architectural Security Vulnerabilities of AI Browsers
When Perplexity released Comet in July, it brought to light what the future of browsers could look like. Since then, a multitude of users have adopted AI Browsers and companies like Open ...
Architectural Limitations in Chrome Browser DevTools in Debugging Malicious Extensions
The past few years have witnessed a surge in malicious browser extensions, including the Geco Colorpick, Cyberhaven and the Great Suspender. These malicious extensions exfiltrate data, steal session cookies, spread spyware and ...
Browser AI Agents: The New “Weakest Link” that Can Feed Your Credentials and Data to Attackers
Since OpenAI launched Operator last fall, a whopping 79% of organizations have started using Browser AI Agents in their day to day work (PwC AI Agents Survey). This is not unexpected as ...
What the Arc Browser Story Reveals About the Future of Browser Security
By Dakshitaa Babu, Security Researcher, SquareXIn a candid letter that Joshua Miller, CEO of Arc Browser, wrote to the community, he revealed a truth the tech industry has been dancing around: “the ...
The Evolution of Ransomware: Browser-Native Ransomware
Among the cyber community, ransomware stands as one of the most recognized and dreaded forms of attack due to the scale of financial and reputational repercussions that come with it. However, over ...
Polymorphic Extensions: The Sneaky Extension That Can Impersonate Any Browser Extension
Imagine that your AI transcriber tool shapeshifts into your password manager, then your crypto wallet and finally into your banking app — all without your knowledge. This is exactly what polymorphic extensions can do ...
