This blog is about how trying to do the “right thing” can lead you straight into a trap. People searching for a VPN ended up downloading credential-stealing malware.
From the victim’s perspective, their trust was exploited at every step: trust in search engines, in familiar logos, in digital signatures, and in the assumption that if things “work in the end,” they must be safe.
Imagine you’re looking for a VPN client to connect to your employer’s network. You use your favorite search engine and, at the top of the search results, you see exactly what you were looking for: listings that look like they belong to established names in the industry. They have the right logo, the right product name, and a description that sounds legitimate.
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