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Tell HN: MitM Attacks on Windscribe VPN

1 pointsby waselighisalmost 2 years ago
I&#x27;ve used Windscribe VPN for many years, but in recent months I&#x27;ve been getting SSL warnings in Chrome and Firefox. It&#x27;s usually limited to specific locations, so I&#x27;ll usually just connect to a different location, but the warnings are becoming more frequent. Now I&#x27;ve started getting &quot;deceptive website&quot; warnings in Chrome on random websites.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s necessarily Windscribe themselves perpetrating these attacks, but most VPN providers don&#x27;t own all their servers, rather they will rent many servers at various locations around the world. I suspect it may be rented servers at fault, as I mentioned before, it&#x27;s usually only specific locations where I get these warnings.

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Ms-Jalmost 2 years ago
It&#x27;s very interesting you mentioned this because I noticed this behaviour on another unrelated VPN service. It appeared to be a SSL stripping attack. Is that what happened to you, waselighis?