ZDNET's key takeaways Aloha delivers strong privacy tools while keeping a Chrome-like experience.The built-in VPN shines on ...

You know those memes about how there’s no such thing as a free VPN? Here’s the ultimate cautionary tale.

Security researchers at Koi Security, led by Idan Dardikman, revealed that Urban VPN Proxy and related extensions have been ...

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.

Power users know that selecting the best Google Chrome extensions can seriously improve one's web browsing experience. Here ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Chrome browser extension with 6 million users, as well as seven other Chrome and Edge extensions, for months have been silently collecting data from every AI chatbot conversion, packaging it, and ...

A wave of recent breaches and malware discoveries shows how easily trusted software and private data can be exploited.

More than a dozen Firefox extensions were found to be malicious, planting backdoors and keeping track of user browsing habits ...

Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI ...