This is a cautionary tale for all of you who install extensions to Chrome or add-ons to Edge browsers willy-nilly. Security ...
According to cybersecurity firm Koi, Urban VPN Proxy and three other popular browser extensions with 8 million+ installs can ...
A cybersecurity company claims that this popular VPN is “harvesting” AI chats. A cybersecurity company claims that a number ...
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 ...
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 ...
According to Dardikman, the Urban VPN Proxy extension monitors the user's browser tabs and, when the user visits one of the ...
Millions of people have been pouring their most sensitive prompts, plans, and confessions into AI chatbots, assuming those ...
The browser extension injects scripts to capture AI prompts and responses even when the VPN features are disabled.
Anything users typed into ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity, would be picked up, as well as anything these tools returned.
The best VPNs can make your online life more private with software that's convenient and cheap — sometimes even free. While ...
Security researchers found a popular Chrome extension secretly copying and storing AI chats, raising major privacy concerns.