View from the Labs

Is it a security suite with a VPN or a security suite with antivirus?

Phishing is still one of the biggest threats to users’ security and privacy. We all know the basic methodology: create a bait of an urgent-looking message, hook them with a link and then capture on a website where they enter their details. And that’s it: you’ve been caught. One effective counter-measure is to flag these “bad” websites, and such filtering is a reasonably common feature in high-end VPN services. Apart from noting that it exists, however, we reviewers have generally had few options to properly assess its effectiveness. In November 2024, that changed when NordSec commissioned AV-Test to carry out a comparison (tinyurl.com/366phishing) of the malicious URL blocking and anti-phishing features built into VPN clients. Naturally, this included NordVPN, but also IPVanish, ExpressVPN, Mullvad and ProtonVPN, all of which offer…

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