Introduction

From Privacy Tool to Spyware The FreeVPN.One Chrome Extension Case examines how a popular browser-extension marketed as a privacy aid became a vehicle for covert surveillance and large scale data-exfiltration. This analysis covers who was involved, what occurred, when changes were introduced, where data flowed, why the deception mattered, and how the technical flow enabled persistent data-collection and screenshot capture. Keywords integrated throughout include spyware, data-exfiltration, data-collection, browser-extension, chrome-web-store, privacy, surveillance, fake-feature, ai-threat-detection, attacker-infrastructure.