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A VPN can help hide your browsing activity, but it won’t prevent you from clicking on a fake banking link or downloading a malicious file.
NordVPNThe answer is to make it VPN application Do more than just encrypt your connection. The company announced Wednesday that it would bring it on Antivirus features Closer to the center of its VPN app, NordVPN is expanding into a broader digital privacy and security service.
According to Domininkas Virbickas, product manager at NordVPN, the updated app is organized around three main areas: connection, protection, and monitoring. In practical terms, this means you can access NordVPN VPNAnd fraud and phishing protection and monitoring tools like Dark Web Monitor from the same application, rather than as separate products.
NordVPN says this shift reflects how online threats have moved beyond traditional malware and now include phishing pages, fake online stores, scams, and malware. Identity theft And attempts to take over the account.
Traditional antivirus software is largely designed around detecting malicious files. NordVPN says its approach aims to stop further threats early, before you hand over your credentials, make a payment on a fraudulent site, or download something malicious.
Virbickas told CNET via email that the company’s next-generation antivirus software uses two layers of detection. At the web level, URLs and domains are scanned in real-time using threat intelligence feeds, rules-based systems, and machine learning models tailored to specific threats, including detecting phishing URLs and recognizing fraud patterns. If something does get onto the device, Verbikas said the second layer uses file scanning powered by machine learning models trained to recognize malware before it can run it.
“The difference is not just what is discovered, but when,” Verbikas said. “The goal is to prevent damage before the user has to deal with the cleaning process.”
Today’s scams are built on deception
Verbikas said online threats no longer rely entirely on malicious files, but on deception. Users are often tricked into handing over credentials, banking information, or other sensitive data via fake websites, scam messages, scam calls (which rely on spoofing and impersonation), or any other type of social engineering.
“People still use the word ‘antivirus’ as shorthand for digital security, but the threats they need to protect against have changed dramatically,” Marigus Bridis, chief technology officer at NordVPN, said in the announcement. “Modern protection must address the real risks people face online today, from phishing and scams to malicious downloads.”
The company said its protection technologies blocked 4.8 million threat events in April, a number that includes malware, phishing, fraud, malicious websites and other malicious or suspicious content that users encounter.
As online data collection intensifies, privacy is more important than ever. Virbickas said NordVPN’s privacy approach revolves around “collecting the minimum signal needed to make a threat decision,” with checks performed locally on the device wherever possible. If server-based analysis is required, the data will be stripped of any identifying information.
Not all features are included in every NordVPN plan. NordVPN’s current plans are Basic, complete and mainAll with a 30-day money-back guarantee and the option to upgrade or add features online.
Put more privacy and Antivirus tools All in one place can make online security feel less fragmented, without having to download separate apps. But one app can’t make you immune to a wide range of cybersecurity threats. Strong passwords, Multi-factor authenticationSoftware updates and a healthy suspicion of strange links are still important.
