Recent exploits are a reminder that when you install an extension, you grant it a lot of power to see where you go online and ...

Security researchers recently discovered two extensions for the Google Chrome browser were rerouting valuable traffic through compromised proxies, and thus sharing sensitive information with malicious ...

Two Chrome extensions called "Phantom Shuttle" pretend to be proxy services, but in reality steal user data. The malicious ...

Two Chrome extensions in the Web Store named 'Phantom Shuttle' are posing as plugins for a proxy service to hijack user ...

A “Featured” browser add-on marketed as privacy protection may have been copying AI chats. Koi Security says Urban VPN Proxy began intercepting prompts and replies after a July 9, 2025 update.

Personal conversations conducted on popular artificial-intelligence platforms including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and ...

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 ...

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

According to cybersecurity firm Koi, Urban VPN Proxy and three other popular browser extensions with 8 million+ installs can ...

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

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 ...