{"id":9457,"date":"2025-12-25T05:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/urban-vpn-proxy-surreptitiously-intercepts-ai-chats-html\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:03:26","slug":"urban-vpn-proxy-surreptitiously-intercepts-ai-chats-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/urban-vpn-proxy-surreptitiously-intercepts-ai-chats-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koi.ai\/blog\/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection\">pretty scary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok (xAI), Meta AI.<\/p>\n<p>For each platform, the extension includes a dedicated \u201cexecutor\u201d script designed to intercept and capture conversations. The harvesting is enabled by default through hardcoded flags in the extension\u2019s configuration.<\/p>\n<p>There is no user-facing toggle to disable this. The only way to stop the data collection is to uninstall the extension entirely.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The data collection operates independently of the VPN functionality. Whether the VPN is connected or not, the harvesting runs continuously in the background.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>What gets captured:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every prompt you send to the AI<br \/>\nEvery response you receive\n<\/li>\n<li>Conversation identifiers and timestamps\n<\/li>\n<li>Session metadata\n<\/li>\n<li>The specific AI platform and model used\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Boing Boing <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2025\/12\/19\/this-free-vpn-is-a-massive-security-risk.html\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/12\/urban-vpn-proxy-surreptitiously-intercepts-ai-chats.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cexecutor\u201d script designed to intercept and capture conversations. The harvesting is enabled by default through hardcoded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1090,83,85,1,516],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-9457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-eavesdropping","category-privacy","category-surveillance","category-uncategorized","category-vpn","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}