The Mullvad Blog

The connection check and leak detection page, previously at am.i.mullvad.net, has been moved to mullvad.net/check. A bunch of problems have been fixed, it has a fresh new look, and it's a lot faster! Read more

We frequently get questions about HK and its new security law. The most common question is “Why haven’t you already pulled out of HK altogether?”, but some customers emphasize the need of servers in HK and voice their concern that we might withdraw. Read more

We recently discovered that the automatic WireGuard key rotation is broken in the latest app release, version 2020.5. This affects all desktop operating systems and Android, but not iOS. Read more

The latest Mullvad VPN stable release (2020.5) for Windows, macOS, and Linux addresses findings from our latest external security audit and includes a number of other new items. Read more

We invite you to read the final report of the independent security audit performed on the Mullvad VPN app. Read more

Our Android app is now available through yet another distribution channel: F-Droid. Read more

It’s not exactly news that our servers with 10GbE network cards are now up and running in both Paris and Zürich. For months you’ve been able to test them out. Meanwhile, we've been testing and improving network connectivity to the point that they’re so optimized that we can announce their existence. Read more

A while back we were notified by an external person about a potential privilege escalation attack towards the Windows version of our app. The attack works against 2020.3 and older versions of the app. By the time this blog post is published, the majority of our users have already upgraded to 2020.4 and are thereby already protected. Furthermore, the threat is only relevant if you have a Windows user account named build and you do not want the people that are controlling said account from being able to become administrators on the machine. In summary: This is very likely not an issue for you! Read more

Among the improvements in the latest beta version of the Mullvad VPN app for Android are two suggestions for improvement from a recent external audit. Read more

An independent security audit of the Mullvad VPN app was recently completed. Based on the auditors' findings, we’ve prioritized our improvements accordingly and released a new beta version for desktop and Android. Read more