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SPYVPN: THE GOOGLE-FEATURED VPN THAT SECRETLY CAPTURES YOUR SCREEN

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Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

FreeVPN.One, a popular VPN Chrome extension, secretly takes screenshots of users' browsing—including sensitive info—and uploads them to the developer's servers without consent. Despite claiming to protect privacy, it abuses permissions, uses encryption to evade detection, and provides misleading explanations, exposing security flaws in Chrome extensions.