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 ...

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

A cybersecurity company claims that this popular VPN is “harvesting” AI chats. A cybersecurity company claims that a number ...

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 ...

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

Millions of people have been pouring their most sensitive prompts, plans, and confessions into AI chatbots, assuming those ...

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 ...

These extensions carry a store seal of approval from Google (and Microsoft). All but one carry 'Featured’ badges to signal to ...

More than a hundred browser extensions spread across Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers turned malicious after five years of “normal” operation. The attackers were apparently playing the long ...