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Popular VPN site cloned to spread malware

August 21, 2019

Via: TechSpot

Researchers at Doctor Web’s virus lab discovered that criminals created a website that was a copy of the one belonging to virtual private network service NordVPN. This nord-vpn[.]club website, which is currently inaccessible, was almost identical to the official nordvpn.com site.

To make this cloned website appear more legitimate and help it pass browser security checks, it had a valid SSL certificate that was issued by open certificate authority Let’s Encrypt.

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