According to cybersecurity firm Koi, Urban VPN Proxy and three other popular browser extensions with 8 million+ installs can see conversations you've had with the top chatbots in 'raw form.' ...
The browser extension injects scripts to capture AI prompts and responses even when the VPN features are disabled.
More than a dozen Firefox extensions were found to be malicious, planting backdoors and keeping track of user browsing habits ...
Urban VPN Proxy, which claims to protect users' privacy, collects data from conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, ...
Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI ...
A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt ...
According to Koi’s analysis, the AI conversation harvesting was introduced in version 5.5.0 of Urban VPN Proxy, released on July 9 2025. Earlier versions did not include this functionality. Because ...
Browser extensions that promise privacy are found to be selling AI conversations from millions of users. Security researchers ...
Malicious Chrome and Edge extensions collected browsing history, keystrokes and personal data from millions of users before ...
A Chrome browser extension with 6 million users, as well as seven other Chrome and Edge extensions, for months have been silently collecting data from every AI chatbot conversion, packaging it, and ...
Tens of thousands of users have installed GhostPoster Firefox extensions, which rely on steganography to hide malware in ...
Although there’s no shortage of free VPNs for PC, very few can be trusted. Some of the many problems you’ll face using one include slow speeds, limited server locations, data caps, insufficient ...