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

Client-Server

Behavior

Evasive
Tunneling

Version Updates

Date	Version	Status	Detail
2025-07-22	33.050	Modified	Sig Added
2025-07-15	33.045	Modified
2024-09-05	28.859	Modified	Sig Added
2024-06-11	28.804	Modified	Sig Added
2023-08-08	25.616	Modified	Sig Added
2022-12-08	22.454	Modified	Sig Added
2022-06-21	21.342	Modified	Sig Added
2020-08-10	15.902	Modified
2020-03-02	15.786	Modified	Modified
2020-02-12	15.776	Modified	Modified