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Researchers find alarming overlaps among 18 popular VPNs

Researchers find alarming overlaps among 18 popular VPNs
technology9/4/2025

App stores treated the VPNs as separate products, despite shared parent companies, codebases and vulnerabilities.

A new peer-reviewed study alleges that 18 of the 100 most-downloaded virtual private network (VPN) apps on the Google Play Store are secretly connected in three large families, despite claiming to be independent providers. The paper doesn't indict an... [2822 chars]