A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt ...
The browser extension injects scripts to capture AI prompts and responses even when the VPN features are disabled.
A privacy-focused Chrome extension installed by more than seven million people worldwide has gone rogue and is stealing your ...
"There is no user-facing toggle to disable this." The post Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and ...
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.' ...
Urban VPN Proxy, which claims to protect users' privacy, collects data from conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, ...
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 ...
Security researchers found a popular Chrome extension secretly copying and storing AI chats, raising major privacy concerns.
Security researchers have uncovered a massive data harvesting operation hidden within a malicious VPN, affecting over eight ...
Security researchers say a popular Chrome extension with millions of users was collecting AI chatbot conversations. Here’s ...
Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI ...
These extensions carry a store seal of approval from Google (and Microsoft). All but one carry 'Featured’ badges to signal to ...