The Mullvad Blog

A serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library was disclosed 30 hours ago. In short it allows (among other things) anyone on the Internet to extract the private keys used for encrypting traffic and identifying service providers to their users. A more complete description can be read on heartbleed.com. This affects a lot of different services including web, email, instant messaging and OpenVPN (which Mullvad uses). Read more

Version 42 is now available for download with several improvements. From now on we will provide a changelog for each release. You can see what's new here. Read more

We hope that you like the new face of Mullvad. Please send us an email if you have any questions or feedback. Read more

New payment option: international wire transfer. Read more

Version 38 is now available for download featuring improved connection monitoring. Read more

Version 37 is now available for download. It fixes a number of problems, the most important being starting on freshly installed Windows XP and Ubuntu 13.04. Read more

Any one of our exit countries can now be used when the program has to circumvent censorship by avoiding OpenVPN filtering. Read more

All account information should be restored now. Thank you for your patience. Read more

We are having database problems. All customers should be able to connect now but the account page may show strange information for a few days. Read more

The Mullvad client program now detects and circumvents (using obfsproxy) OpenVPN filtering as used in China, Iran, Syria and other places. Read more