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title: New CometJacking Attack Turns AI Browser Into Data Theft Tool With One Click
description: Discover how 'CometJacking' exploits AI trust, stealing data via malicious URLs, as researchers warn of this new browser threat.
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# New CometJacking Attack Turns AI Browser Into Data Theft Tool With One Click

Discover how 'CometJacking' exploits AI trust, stealing data via malicious URLs, as researchers warn of this new browser threat.

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By Content Team Oct 5, 2025

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Security researchers at LayerX discovered a dangerous vulnerability called "CometJacking" that weaponizes Perplexity's AI-powered Comet browser against users. The attack works through a single malicious URL that tricks the browser's AI assistant into stealing personal data from connected services like Gmail and Google Calendar. Unlike traditional browser attacks, CometJacking exploits the trust relationship between users and their AI assistants. When someone clicks the malicious link, hidden commands in the URL instruct the AI to access user memory and encode stolen data using base64 before sending it to attacker-controlled servers. Researchers successfully demonstrated email theft and calendar harvesting during testing. LayerX reported the vulnerability to Perplexity in August 2025, but the company initially dismissed it as having "no security impact." **Source:** [Cybersecurity News](https://cybersecuritynews.com/cometjacking-attack/)

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