A widely-installed Chrome extension marketed as a free VPN — FreeVPN.One — has been exposed for secretly taking screenshots of users’ browsing sessions and uploading them to an external server (Free Chrome). The discovery, reported by security researchers and covered…
In a bold move that signals the evolving role of virtual private network (VPN) services, NordVPN has rolled out a crypto wallet address checker within its Threat Protection Pro™ toolset (Major VPN). As cryptocurrency scams mount and victims lose billions,…
A controversial EU proposal, widely dubbed “Chat Control,” would require detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) across online services — potentially including encrypted communications — by mandating client-side scanning or other forms of pre-encryption inspection. While lawmakers frame the…
GeoComply’s latest independent test results show their GeoGuard VPN-detection product achieved a 99.1% VPN detection rate with a 0% false-positive rate in lab testing — a headline number that will resonate across streaming, finance and fraud-prevention teams. As more traffic…
Switzerland has long been regarded as a global bastion of digital privacy, the trusted home for encrypted email firms, secure messaging apps and leading no-logs VPN services (Swiss Government). However, a controversial amendment recently proposed by the Federal Council of…
On 25 July 2025, the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) came fully into force in the United Kingdom, bringing in sweeping new requirements for age verification on adult content platforms(UK Online Safety Act). One of the most striking outcomes: a…
Recent research shows machine learning can reliably detect VPN traffic even when payloads are encrypted and application-level DPI fails. By extracting time-frequency features using wavelet transforms and feeding them to models such as Random Forests and neural networks, authors report…
The Google Play Store is rolling out a new “Verified” badge specifically for VPN apps that meet rigorous privacy, security, and transparency criteria (Google Play will now display a “Verified” badge for VPNs that meet strict privacy and security standards,…
On July 25, 2025, the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act began enforcing mandatory age verification on adult content platforms and other sites deemed “harmful.” Within hours, VPN services saw an unprecedented surge in demand across the UK(UK Age-Verification Law) Providers…
French telecom operator Free (Iliad) recently rolled out Free mVPN — a consumer VPN service integrated directly into its mobile core and included at no extra cost for its 5G and Série Free plans(mobile vpn). Free says the feature is…