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Their (expired) private keys have been leaked, meaning anyone can just set up a server with those keys… /TOap6NyvNy- undefined October 20, 2019Īttackers took the expired TLS key from the server, “the key couldn’t possibly have been used to decrypt the VPN traffic of any other server,” NordVPN said.Īlso, the company confirms the affected server doesn’t have any user activity logs and no applications send credentials to the server for authentication, so no credentials or other servers are not affected. From my point of view using NordVPN after all these failures and lies one is better off using other VPNs or not using one.So apparently NordVPN was compromised at some point. If top VPNs like NordVPN which sits with a score of 9.7 has failed to provide this security one might as well stop paying for it because it won’t make a difference who collects their logs that may be their Internet service provider (ISP) or NordVPN. This helps make a person feel more secure because they aren’t being spied upon. That is why people choose VPNs for surfing the internet. Will they amend their website About ? ConclusionĪny VPN is supposed to keep you anonymous and safe. This current hack made them compromised and some keys were exposed. We have not disclosed any private keys or any information of our users, and we have not been forced to modify our system to allow access or data leakage to a third party of any kind. It has never been compromised or suffered a data breach.

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We, NordVPN, confirm that we take full control of our infrastructure. NordVPN – Nordic Ideals of Trustīefore I close it down, let me bring everyone’s attention to what NordVPN has stated in their about page, I doubt they will change that, but its a fun read

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Ironically OpenVPN Community Wiki and Tracker has a list of ways on how to harden VPN which includes a paragraph about secure PKI management. NordVPN and OpenVPN were not practicing secure PKI management and only TorGuard was. This attack was not aimed at NordVPN but along this TorGuard and OpenVPN were also targeted.

Bonus: NordVPN can’t keep up with hacks as many groups are hacking and leaking hacked credentials.

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Fault of NordVPN or not the hacker could have added malicious code into plain text being viewed by the NordVPN users connected to that server.

No practicing of secure PKI management because the CA private key was on the same server which shouldn’t have happened.

That means NordVPN failed to detect the hack in the so called third-party provider breach.

Why wasn’t the hack detected by NordVPN even though they had full remote admin on their Finland node LXC containers.

So now the no log policy is a complete hoax the hacker could have accessed the NordVPN users browsing history.

NordVPN’s no log policy? It’s a scam all traffic is being logged and even sent to UDC.

The keys and certificates were of? NordVPN! whose fault is it? NordVPN!

They also said this was a third-party provider breach and none of their fault.

The hackers found the expired TLS keys and the certificate using which they could act as NordVPN for victim’s and exploit them without any of their knowledge.

NordVPN saying that it is just an expired TLS certificate, It is way more than that.

Now with the Certificate + key you can do wonders. This one isn't our work, its just been floating around mostly unnoticed. They do admit that the hacker could monitor traffic such as websites but not specific content. They said that the attack was done by gaining unauthorized access to an insecure remote management system which was added by the data center without notifying NordVPN. The server provider is not named by NordVPN. NordVPN claims that this breach was the fault of data center and their only mistake was using an unreliable server provider. “The server itself did not contain any user activity logs none of our applications send user-created credentials for authentication, so usernames and passwords couldn’t have been intercepted either,”

NordVPN claims that it has a No-Log Policy which means no collection or sharing of sensitive data.

The hacker also acquired an expired Transport Layer Security key (TLS key) using which the hacker could have intercepted single user’s web traffic but would require extraordinary access to the victim’s device or network. Although the hacker couldn’t know what specific content was being seen but only the websites. After gaining access the hacker could monitor traffic such as websites the NordVPN users are visiting at that moment and could have injected malicious stuff into the plaintext traffic.

A hacker gained unauthorized access to a remote management system.