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

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

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

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

More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed ...

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.

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.' ...