A hot potato: Several widely installed browser extensions endorsed by both Google and Microsoft secretly captured detailed user interactions with AI chat platforms. According to findings released by ...

A handful of Chrome extensions have been harvesting entire conversation logs of users' interactions with the most popular AI chatbots. Most chatbot users understand that the companies behind them are ...

KOI, an Israel-based 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 ...

Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users’ complete and extended AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google ...

Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite. According to research from Koi Security, these pernicious plug-ins ...

A popular browser extension that acts as a VPN to protect users' privacy is actually harvesting and facilitating the sale of data from conversations with AI chatbot assistants. While versions previous ...