Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension

Researcher claims extension didn’t start out by exfiltrating info… while dev says its actions are ‘compliant’

Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently appears to have begun snaffling screenshots of users’ page activity and transmitting them to a remote server without their knowledge – and Google has yet to take it down.…

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