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Threat Spotlight: Credential Theft vs. Admin Control—Two Devastating Paths to VPN Exploitation

Digital Shadows

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. How AI and automation are amplifying the scale and sophistication of VPN attacks.

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Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims

Krebs on Security

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. VPNs work by creating a virtual network interface that serves as an encrypted tunnel for communications. “This is intended functionality that isn’t clearly stated in the RFC [standard].

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Encrypted messaging service intercepted, 2.3 million messages read by law enforcement

Malwarebytes

European law enforcement agencies have taken down yet another encrypted messaging service mainly used by criminals. The Matrix encrypted messaging service was an invite-only service which was also marketed under the names Mactrix, Totalsec, X-quantum, or Q-safe. de Vries in 2021.

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Popular VPNs are routing traffic via Chinese companies, including one with link to military

Malwarebytes

That’s according to a report from the non-profit Tech Transparency Project (TTP), who investigated the top 100 mobile VPN apps downloaded from Apple’s App Store as documented by mobile intelligence company AppMagic. Mobile VPNs are apps that connect your smartphone to the internet via different computers around the world.

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I'm Partnering with NordVPN as a Strategic Advisor

Troy Hunt

Equally, I have no patience for false promises, and I've been very vocal about my feelings there: But one of them is literally called “Secure VPN”, how is this possible?! Are You Using These VPN Apps? The promise of "no logs" in particular is a favourite of VPN providers yet evidently, the reality doesn't always meet the promise.

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New TunnelVision technique can bypass the VPN encapsulation

Security Affairs

TunnelVision is a new VPN bypass technique that enables threat actors to spy on users’ traffic bypassing the VPN encapsulation. Leviathan Security researchers recently identified a novel attack technique, dubbed TunnelVision, to bypass VPN encapsulation. The researchers referred to this result as “decloaking.”

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The one reason your iPhone needs a VPN

Malwarebytes

For years, Apple has marketed its iPhone as the more secure, more private option when compared to other smart phones, which do not, by default, include an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, warn users repeatedly about app location requests, or provide a privacy-forward Single Sign-On feature. VPNs encrypt your iPhone’s app traffic.

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