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

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

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

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

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

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

Over six million conversations with private AI chatbots were scraped and sold to data brokers for profit, according to new security research.

Security researchers at Koi Security, led by Idan Dardikman, revealed that Urban VPN Proxy and related extensions have been ...

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 ...

In Chrome, go to chrome://extensions/, enable Developer mode using the toggle in the top-right, then click the “Load unpacked ...

Security researchers have uncovered a massive data harvesting operation hidden within a malicious VPN, affecting over eight ...

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