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CyberGhost’s Transparency Report 2015

Bucharest, January 26th2016 - CyberGhost VPN, creator of most advanced privacy and security solutions is announcing the Transparency Report 2015.

The transparency report aims to highlight insights of various requests to disclose theidentity of CyberGhost’s users, even though the company does not keep logs.In the report, data is analyzed and correlated with different internal and external events to better understand the requests and the importance of privacy to CyberGhosts users.

The requests received by law enforcement agencies, police offices, and websites owners or individuals and law firms around the world have been grouped in three categories: DMCA complaints, police requests and malware activity complaints.

  • Compared to the previous year, the number ofDMCA requests has decreased with an average of -21% over the past 12 months, receiving an average of 1,318 requests per month.
  • Although the user base has seen a growth of 60%, the number of received police requests has declined to -24% with an average of only 6requests per month.
  • On a global scale, the reported malicious activities in CyberGhost’s network have increased significantlywith 310%from an average of 99 per month in 2014 to 407 per month in 2015. Substantial increases of malicious activities have been also reported by security companies such as Kaspersky Lab, Trend Micro, Cisco and Symantec.

“Interestingly, censorship, governmental web filtering measures and mass surveillance reports have also influenced the usage of VPN. Whether democratic or nondemocratic countries, various legislation changes affect the online experience of users. We are thrilled to show how politics influences privacy and encourages actions to encrypt communications and anonymize the online presence”, said Robert Knapp, co-founder and CEO of CyberGhost VPN.

CyberGhost has taken several measures to reduce the number of abuses committed on the service such as analyzing the ports used for torrent streaming and blocking them in countries where specific laws exist. To stop malware activities, CyberGhost has blocked access to the attacked IP’s so any further attack would be impossible since most of the complaints are specifying the source of the attacks as well as the victim’s IP. These measures are also linked to the pressureput on datacenter owners by authorities and law firm representatives.

All the requests remain a confirmation of the fact that digital citizens are being watched and their data is considered to be automatically stored by ISP’s. “We believe that tech companies and industry leaders should address the privacy issue on a regular basis and take all the possible measures to protect the privacy of their users.” CyberGhost does not keep logs and is committed to defend the privacy of its users considering privacy a basic human right and the foundation of democratic societies.

The transparency report also includes data about US, German, UK, Pakistan and Turkey;censorship and its impact on VPN usage; influence of wealth on privacy in various regions of the world; encryption as a digital weapon in the 21st century and other relevant information about privacy. Download the complete Transparency report here:

About CyberGhost

Founded 2011 in Bucharest, Romania, CyberGhost S.R.L. is the creator of one of the world's most reliable privacy and security solutions in the world. The company secures and anonymizes the online presence of over 7.5 million users across the globe. CyberGhost S.R.L. defends privacy as a basic human right, being first in the industry to publish a transparency report while building new user-oriented crypto-technology for the future.

The Company has 30 employees consisting of a German developer team, and a group of highly motivated young IT experts located in Romania. Exceptionally experienced with internet anonymity and endeavor to work with like-minded persons, the company contributes an important part for the support of civil rights, a free society and an uncensored internet culture.

About CyberGhost VPN

CyberGhost VPN establishes a 256 Bit AES encrypted connection to the CyberGhost-network. Here the online shown and clear recognizable IP address will be masked and replaced with an innocuous one. The Windows-Client is installed fast and is very intuitive. Also available is an iOS App and the support for the native protocols PPTP, L2TP/IPSec and OpenVPN; as well as a Mac and Android Client. For more information about CyberGhost’s products, visit

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