Koi, cybersecurity firm focused on developing protections against extension-based attacks, has released a report alleging that Urban VPN Proxy, a popular VPN extension on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, has a hidden function to harvest user conversations on AI platforms. — Pixabay
A cybersecurity company claims that a number of web browser extensions are secretly logging and selling users’ conversations with AI chatbots.
Koi, cybersecurity firm focused on developing protections against extension-based attacks, has released a report alleging that Urban VPN Proxy, a popular VPN extension on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, has a hidden function to harvest user conversations on AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. The extension was updated with this new capability in July, according to Koi.
