Hola's founder has confirmed the popular VPN Chrome extension sells its users' bandwidth in order to cover the cost of offering its free service -- resulting in a vast botnet-for-sale network.
Free P2P VPN Hola sold users' bandwidth which was then used for botnets; researchers say to uninstall Hola now as it makes users vulnerable to hacking. The Hola free peer-to-peer service claims to ...
Sometimes a free service isn’t really free and you can end up paying for it in unexpected ways. If you’re running the Chrome extension Hola Better Internet or the Firefox add-on Hola Unblocker, well, ...
Antivirus provider Trend Micro is now flagging a free, but controversial VPN service called HolaVPN as potentially malicious. "To protect our customers, we have decided to detect the HolaVPN software ...