Chrome’s Gemini “Live in Chrome” panel (Gemini’s embedded, agent-style assistant mode within Chrome) had a high‑severity vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2026‑0628.
The flaw let a low‑privilege extension inject code into the Gemini side panel and inherit its powerful capabilities, including local file access, screenshots, and camera/microphone control. The vulnerability was patched in a January update. But the deeper story is that AI or agentic browsers are stepping outside long‑standing isolation boundaries, so extension abuse, prompt injection, and trusted‑UI phishing all become much more dangerous
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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