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Legitimate Chrome VPN with 100K+ Installs Secretly Captures Screenshots and Exfiltrates Sensitive Data


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2025-08-20 12:07:56
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A Chrome extension marketed as FreeVPN.One, boasting over 100,000 installations, a verified badge, and featured placement in the Chrome Web Store, has been exposed as spyware that silently captures screenshots of users’ browsing activities and exfiltrates them to remote servers. Despite its privacy policy explicitly stating that the developer does not collect or use user […]


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