Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats

This is pretty scary: Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok xAI, Meta AI. For each platform, the extension includes a dedicated "executor" script designed to intercept and capture conversations. The...

Chrome extension slurps up AI chats after users installed it for privacy

This case highlights a growing grey area in consumer privacy: data collection that is technically disclosed, but so far outside user expectations that most people would never knowingly agree to it. The next time you tell an AI chat assistant your deepest secrets, think twice; you never know who o...

Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats

A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence AI-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and...