Application Control

Hotspot.Shield

Description

This indicates an attempt to access Hotspot Shield.
Hotspot Shield is a VPN application developed by AnchorFree, Inc. It is used for securing Internet connections. It was built to bypass government censorship.

Affected Products

Hotspot Shield

Impact

Firewall policy avoidance

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

Evasive
Tunneling

Version Updates

Date	Version	Detail
2023-08-08	25.616	Sig Added
2022-12-08	22.454	Sig Added
2022-06-21	21.342	Sig Added
2020-08-10	15.902	Modified
2020-03-02	15.786	Modified
2020-02-12	15.776	Modified
2020-02-06	15.773	Sig Added
2020-01-20	15.761	Sig Added
2020-01-09	15.755	Sig Added
2019-12-19	15.748	Sig Added