Lawsuit names NordVPN, Tesonet in proxy data extraction scheme

I was sceptical against NordVPN too and have been checking wireshark traffic for other requests a few times every month, and have seen nothing out of the ordinary. Little snitch have shown no non-vpn connections either.

Apparently they are doing an independent audit to prove they are legit.

https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordvpn-false-allegations/

I'd hope they would open source their VPN client, makes inspection and audits easier on the user side.

I don’t know, but this whole scandal looks really ridiculous to me. I mean VPN users are usually more techy and should notice that the Internet connection is being used by another service (by really dropped speed and/or used bandwidth). I’ve checked it with Wireshark and everything seems alright to me — only connections are being made to the VPN servers. Read that they are doing a full audit in 2 months or so about the whole zero log policy so it will be interesting to see, even though I doubt anything scandalous will come out.

Anyone have a good VPN recommendation? My NordVPN subscription actually just recently expired, and I was going to renew it, but in light of this, I’m open to other options.

Wonder if this is why the long-running Something Awful deal went away.

So is the NordVPN client app using users computers as a glorified proxy network, or is it something else?

TLDR: Lawsuit alleges NordVPN's parent company is employing botnet code that is patented by Luminati. Article author suspects that if NordVPN is doing it, it is probably in the vehicle of their VPN app.

It seems to me that suspicious users can avoid this by either connecting to NordVPN VPN proxies using a client they trust rather than through the app. Alternatively, for those on macOS, use the version of the app published in the Mac app store.