A “Featured” browser add-on marketed as privacy protection may have been copying AI chats. Koi Security says Urban VPN Proxy ...

The browser extension injects scripts to capture AI prompts and responses even when the VPN features are disabled.

Urban VPN Proxy, which claims to protect users' privacy, collects data from conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, ...

A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt ...

According to Dardikman, the Urban VPN Proxy extension monitors the user's browser tabs and, when the user visits one of the ...

Koi's investigation identified eight such extensions available on the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons page, collectively surpassing eight million installations. Seven of them carried ...

Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI ...

Malicious Chrome and Edge extensions collected browsing history, keystrokes and personal data from millions of users before Google and Microsoft removed them.

More than a dozen Firefox extensions were found to be malicious, planting backdoors and keeping track of user browsing habits ...

According to cybersecurity firm Koi, Urban VPN Proxy and three other popular browser extensions with 8 million+ installs can ...

Security researchers found a popular Chrome extension secretly copying and storing AI chats, raising major privacy concerns.

This is a cautionary tale for all of you who install extensions to Chrome or add-ons to Edge browsers willy-nilly. Security ...