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Seraphic Becomes the First and Only Secure Enterprise Browser Solution to Protect Electron-Based Applications

Seraphic, the leader in enterprise browser security (SEB) and AI enablement, today announced native protection for Electron-based applications such as ChatGPT desktop, Teams, Slack, and more, becoming the first and only browser security platform to introduce this capability.

Obscure MCP API in Comet Browser Breaches User Trust, Enabling Full Device Control via AI Browsers

SquareX released critical research exposing a hidden API in Comet that allows extensions in the AI Browser to execute local commands and gain full control over users' devices. The research reveals that Comet has implemented a MCP API (chrome.perplexity.mcp.addStdioServer) that allows its embedded extensions to execute arbitrary local commands on users' devices, capabilities that traditional browsers explicitly prohibit. Concerningly, there is limited official documentation on the MCP API.