Some agentic AI browsers come with major cybersecurity risks, UW study finds

A UW team studied seven popular agentic AI browsers and found that four create ways for malicious actors to bypass a fundamental cybersecurity protocol called the “same-origin policy,” which makes websites open in a browser unable to interact with each other’s information. Researchers ran a successful proof-of-concept cyberattack on one browser. Photo: iStock In the last year or so, artificial intelligence companies have rolled out a spate of web browsers equipped with AI agents . A user might a