Enterprise AI Analysis: November 24, 2025
Mitigating the Risk of Prompt Injections in Browser-Based AI
Claude Opus 4.5 sets a new standard in robustness to prompt injections—adversarial instructions hidden within the content that AI models process. Our new model is a major improvement over previous ones in both its core performance and in the safeguards surrounding its use. This analysis explores the critical challenges and advancements in securing AI agents in real-world browser environments.
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What is Prompt Injection?
For AI agents to be genuinely useful, they need to be able to act on your behalf—to browse websites, complete tasks, and work with your context and data. But this comes with risk: every webpage an agent visits is a potential vector for attack. Among legitimate search results, documents, and applications, an attacker might have embedded malicious instructions to hijack the agent and change its behavior. These prompt injection attacks represent one of the most significant security challenges for browser-based AI agents. We explain how prompt injections threaten browser agents, and the improvements we've made to Claude's robustness.
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Why Browser Use Creates Unique Risks
While all agents that process untrusted content are subject to prompt injection risks, browser use amplifies this risk in two ways. First, the attack surface is vast: every webpage, embedded document, advertisement, and dynamically loaded script represents a potential vector for malicious instructions. Second, browser agents can take a lot of different actions —navigating to URLs, filling forms, clicking buttons, downloading files—that attackers can exploit if they gain influence over the agent's behavior.
Case Study: Covert Email Exfiltration
An employee uses an AI agent to process emails and draft replies. A seemingly legitimate vendor inquiry contains hidden instructions (invisible white text) embedded by an attacker. These instructions direct the agent to forward emails containing 'confidential' to an external address before drafting replies. The injection successfully exfiltrates sensitive communications without the user's knowledge.
Outcome: Without robust defenses, the AI agent, acting on behalf of the user, can be hijacked to perform malicious actions, leading to data breaches and severe security compromises.
Significant Progress in Prompt Injection Robustness
We have made significant progress on prompt injection robustness since launching Claude for Chrome in research preview. Claude Opus 4.5 demonstrates stronger prompt injection robustness in browser use than previous models. In addition, since the original preview of the browser extension, we've implemented new safeguards that substantially improve safety across all Claude models.
| Feature/Metric | Original Preview | Claude Opus 4.5 |
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| Attack Success Rate (ASR) | Meaningful Risk (higher ASR) | Reduced to ~1% (significant improvement) |
| Safeguards | Basic intervention | Improved classifiers & intervention logic |
| Training | Initial Reinforcement Learning | Advanced RL with simulated web content & reward-based refusal |
| Red Teaming | Internal probing | Scaled expert human red teaming & external challenges |
| Overall Robustness | Moderate | Stronger, industry-leading |
Key Areas of Focus:
Our work has focused on three core areas: training Claude to resist prompt injection through reinforcement learning, improving our classifiers to detect adversarial commands in various forms, and scaled expert human red teaming to continuously discover new attack vectors.
Claude's Enhanced Defense Mechanism
Agent encounters untrusted web content
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Classifiers scan for adversarial commands
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If detected, agent adjusts behavior & refuses
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If clean, agent executes legitimate task
Ongoing Vigilance in an Adversarial Environment
The web is an adversarial environment, and building browser agents that can operate safely within it requires ongoing vigilance. Prompt injection remains an active area of research, and we are committed to investing in defenses as attack techniques evolve. We will continue to publish our progress transparently, both to help customers make informed deployment decisions and to encourage broader industry investment in this critical challenge.
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