On top of that, HolaVPN users could be incorporated by cybercriminals into a botnet attack. In fact, subsequent research by security firm Trend Micro showed that not only were Hola users being used for Hola VPN nodes, but sneakily, were simultaneously being used as nodes for a commercial VPN, Luminati. Hola claims that this practice keeps the cost down, but this immediately raises the concern that another Hola user’s illegal activity could be sharing your IP Address and bandwidth. Rather than building out a network of servers to host the service, Hola created a “peer to peer” VPN, with each user potentially acting as a node, with other users traffic going through your smartphone, although Hola reassured users “The amount of traffic that Hola passes through a peer on its network per day on average is less than a 20 second YouTube clip,” estimated to be about 5 MB’s. Hola Free VPN is just one of many free VPNs that has gained public attention recently for being unsafe (Image Credit: Hola) (Image credit: Image Credit: Hola) Say goodbye to HolaĪ good example of this is the Hola Free VPN.

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