Please delete this VPN service immediately, tens of millions of users are having security holes

Google quickly removed it from the app store, but a large number of users continued to use it.

Google recently announced that it had removed a VPN service on its Android app store, after finding major security flaws that allowed hackers to send users to malicious servers. This application was SuperVPN , before being deleted, there were 100 million downloads and belonged to the top 5 most famous VPN applications on Google App Store.

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Tests show that this VPN can help hackers do a lot of things: apply MITM (man-in-the-middle) attacks to get messages, transfer users to malicious servers or get information through. HTTP protocol is not secure. Although the information of the user and the other service side is encrypted, the password for decryption is set at the date in the application, which can be exploited by bad guys.

Before being deleted, SuperVPN also met a lot of criticism about security issues. This application was published by a company called SuperSoftTech from Singapore, but after the investigation, it was developed by a person named Jinrong Zheng from Beijing. Zheng is also the developer of LinkVPN, another VPN service announced by Shenyang Yiyuansu Network Technology to confront SuperVPN on the App Store.

Since 2016, a team in Australia has discovered SuperVPN vulnerabilities and ranked it third in the list of applications with the highest risk of being hacked. At this time, SuperVPN has only been installed about 10,000 times. The app has skyrocketed in downloads from 50 to 100 million earlier this year after the outbreak of the COVID-19, many downloaded to work from home.

This strong growth may also come from the publisher itself, when they post a lot of fake positive reviews, create illegal back-links to bring the app to the top of the App Store rankings, make it easier for users to find and download.

To date, there are still millions of users using SuperVPN, and they are still at risk of being hacked at any time. If you are one of them, delete it before it's too late and use services from a more reputable source.