OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Security researchers at Zenity discovered over a dozen vulnerabilities in AI-powered browsers, including OpenAI's Atlas, demonstrating that the flaws could be exploited to carry out unauthorized actions — such as making purchases on Amazon or sending unsolicited messages to a user's WhatsApp contacts.
Why this matters: An AI browser that can act on your behalf — buying things, messaging your contacts — is only useful if it stays under your control. These findings show it might not. The threat is not abstract. Someone who compromises the agent does not just see your data; they can use it to impersonate you to the people you know. That is a different category of harm than a normal data breach. OpenAI is building tools that hold real access to real accounts, and right now the security is not keeping up with the capability.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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