Paid for VPNs, Where your security and money go to die.

[L&LD]

US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs

911 S5 residential proxy service was composed of 19 million IP addresses.

arstechnica.com

Do you feel lucky, punk?

 

[RMerlin]

The article is about free VPN services, so I don't see the relation there with Paid VPN services referred to in the title...

 

[cptnoblivious]

No, I don't feel lucky. I feel like that is a misleading, click-bait topic though

 

[L&LD]

At no time, there is direct connection between the infected node and the 911.re paid subscriber even when the node is selected, and traffic passes through. All the network traffic is always routed between the C2 servers that are USA based, reducing the risk of anomaly detection by IDS or IPS systems. Mask VPN and Dew VPN are using a custom implementation of the open-source OpenVPN.

Just because free VPNs were used, doesn't mean they were free.

 

[jerry6]

US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs

911 S5 residential proxy service was composed of 19 million IP addresses.

arstechnica.com

Do you feel lucky, punk?

no such thing as FREE you pay one way or another

 

[sfx2000]

Well - I've been clear with my thoughts on VPN's in any case - for personal use, if you do not control both ends, it's not private.