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One Extension, Five Browsers, Zero Malicious Code: The Agent Hijack Nobody Priced In

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A single extension hit five different AI browser assistants and walked away with $20K in bounties from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity. Not because it found five different bugs. Because it found one architectural blind spot that every vendor happened to share. Context This isn't a new…

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  1. 2026-09-24 00:30 · DEV Community — AI
    One Extension, Five Browsers, Zero Malicious Code: The Agent Hijack Nobody Priced In

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