Google’s Trusted “Free VPN” Wasn’t Free. It Was a Trap. The story broke from The Daily Hodl, in an article written by Rhodilee Jean Dolor, and it’s a doozy. According to cybersecurity firm Koi Security, the Chrome extension FreeVPN.One—yes, the very one featured by Google—was secretly taking screenshots of every single website its users visited. Read that again: Screenshots. Of everything. Passwords. Bank accounts. Private messages. You name it—swept up and shipped off to a shadowy third-party server the moment a site loaded. No warning. No permissions. Just quiet, backdoor surveillance dressed up as “AI Threat Detection.” Let’s connect the dots. May 31, 2025: A new domain, aitd.one, is registered. July: Version 3.1.3 of FreeVPN.One goes live. Immediately: Silent tracking…
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