Mastra npm packages added easy-day-js malware, exposing developer systems and CI runners to infostealer risks.

Chrome's WebMCP guidance warns that AI agents can be manipulated through the tools they are built to trust.

Anthropic reported a 31.5% prompt-injection success rate for its browser agent when it released Opus 4.8 on May 28. Browser agents raise the stakes because a hostile prompt can move from text ...

Across the frontier labs, the highest prompt injection figures published this spring are Anthropic’s. Point a red-teamer at its newest model in a browser, and the attacker hijacked it 31.5% of the ...

Point a red-teamer at Anthropic’s newest model while it’s browsing the web, and the attacker successfully hijacked it nearly one in three times. That’s the raw stat: a 31.5% prompt injection success ...

Let’s face it: Season 1 of Hijack was not a masterpiece in storytelling, but Idris Elba made it endlessly watchable. Part of that is Elba himself — his gravitas, his screen presence, the ease with ...

In short: Google is classifying “back button hijacking” as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, with ...

PCWorld reports that Google will penalize websites that hijack the browser’s back button, a manipulative practice that redirects users to unwanted pages or ads. This new spam policy violation, ...

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Something to look forward to: Google has announced that it will begin penalizing websites that interfere with the normal functioning of a web browser's back button. Known as back button hijacking, ...

So you thought you’d just read that webpage and then go back to the previous page? A bold assumption. All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s ...

Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy. Back button hijacking occurs when a site prevents users from ...