Friday, September 11, 2026

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Anyone With a Browser Could Access 700,000 Vatican Prayer App Accounts

A critical access control vulnerability in the Vatican’s official “Click to Pray” platform has exposed the personal data of more than 700,000 users, highlighting once again how basic web...

12 Fraudulent Browser Extensions Disguised as TikTok Downloaders Compromise 130K Users

LayerX security researchers have uncovered a massive, highly coordinated campaign involving at least 12 malicious browser extensions on the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge...

New ZAP PTK Add-On Converts Browser Security Findings Into Native ZAP Alerts

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) just received a massive upgrade for testing modern web applications. The release of the ZAP PTK Add-on 0.3.0,...

Malicious Browser Add‑on Targets imToken Users’ Private Keys

Socket’s Threat Research Team has uncovered a highly deceptive Google Chrome extension designed to steal private keys and seed phrases from cryptocurrency users. The...

Perplexity’s Comet Browser Breached Through Calendar Invite Attack

Security researchers at Zenity Labs disclosed a critical flaw in Perplexity’s Comet “agentic” browser that allowed attackers to steal local files using a malicious...

Threat Actors Abuse Browser Extensions to Deliver Fake Warning Messages

Threat intelligence researchers at Huntress have uncovered a sophisticated browser extension campaign orchestrated by the KongTuke threat actor group, featuring a malicious ad blocker...

HashJack: A Novel Exploit Leveraging URL Fragments To Deceive AI Browsers

Security researchers at Cato CTRL have uncovered HashJack. This innovative indirect prompt-injection attack hides harmful commands in the fragment portion of URLs after the...

Mozilla Enforces Transparency Rules for Data Collection in New Firefox Extensions

Mozilla has announced a significant transparency initiative for its Firefox browser ecosystem, implementing mandatory data disclosure requirements for extension developers. Starting November 3rd, 2025, all...

Chromium-Based Browsers in Windows Domains Vulnerable to Arbitrary Extension Loads

A new study has uncovered a method for silently installing custom extensions on Chromium-based browsers running in Windows domain environments. By exploiting how Chrome and...

SHUYAL Emerges: Stealing Login Credentials from 19 Major Browsers

A sophisticated new information stealer named SHUYAL was recently discovered by Hybrid Analysis. It has demonstrated extensive capabilities in credential extraction from 19 different...

Brave Browser Block Microsoft Recall Over Privacy Issues

Brave Software today announced that, beginning with version 1.81 for Windows 11 and newer, the Brave browser will automatically disable Microsoft’s Recall feature by default. Recall, introduced by Microsoft in May 2024 as a Copilot PC...