A virtual private network can help hide your browsing activity, but it won’t stop you from clicking a fake banking link or downloading a malicious file. NordVPN’s answer is to make its VPN app do more than encrypt your connection. The company announced Wednesday that it’s bringing its antivirus features closer to the center of its VPN app, as NordVPN expands into a broader digital privacy and security service. According to Domininkas Virbickas, product director at NordVPN, the updated app is organized around three main areas: Connect, Protect and Monitor. In practice, that means you can access NordVPN’s VPN, scam and phishing protection and monitoring tools such as Dark Web Monitor from the same app, instead of treating them as separate products. NordVPN says the shift reflects how online threats have moved beyond traditional malware and now include phishing pages, fake online stores, scam messages, identity theft and account takeover attempts. Traditional antivirus software was largely built around detecting malicious files. NordVPN says its approach is meant to stop more threats earlier, before you hand over your credentials, …