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Android VPN apps used by millions are covertly connected AND insecure

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Android VPN apps used by millions are covertly connected AND insecure 2025-08-19 at 17:07 By Zeljka Zorz Three families of Android VPN apps, with a combined 700 million-plus Google Play downloads, are secretly linked, according to a group of researchers from Arizona State University and Citizen Lab. Finding the secret links Virtual private networks (VPNs) […]

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New Research Links VPN Apps, Highlights Security Deficiencies

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New Research Links VPN Apps, Highlights Security Deficiencies 2025-08-19 at 12:17 By Ionut Arghire Citizen Lab has identified links between multiple VPN providers, and multiple security weaknesses in their mobile applications. The post New Research Links VPN Apps, Highlights Security Deficiencies appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Trojanized SonicWall NetExtender app exfiltrates VPN credentials

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Trojanized SonicWall NetExtender app exfiltrates VPN credentials 2025-06-24 at 15:00 By Zeljka Zorz Unknown attackers have trojanized SonicWall’s SSL-VPN NetExtender application, the company has warned on Monday, and have been tricking users into downloading it from a lookalike site(s?). The trojanized SonicWall NetExtender installer SonicWall NetExtender is an SSL‑VPN client used by companies to give remote

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Product showcase: Go beyond VPNs and Tor with NymVPN

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Product showcase: Go beyond VPNs and Tor with NymVPN 2025-05-13 at 16:01 By Help Net Security If you care about online privacy, you probably already know: Centralized VPNs and even Tor aren’t enough anymore. Traditional VPNs require you to trust a single company with your internet activity. Even if they promise “no logs,” you’re still

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Yet another SonicWall SMA100 vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2025-32819)

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Yet another SonicWall SMA100 vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2025-32819) 2025-05-08 at 15:38 By Zeljka Zorz SonicWall has fixed multiple vulnerabilities affecting its SMA100 Series devices, one of which (CVE-2025-32819) appears to be a patch bypass for an arbitrary file delete vulnerability that was exploited in zero-day attacks in early 2021, and may have also

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Rapid7 Reveals RCE Path in Ivanti VPN Appliance After Silent Patch Debacle

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Rapid7 Reveals RCE Path in Ivanti VPN Appliance After Silent Patch Debacle 2025-04-11 at 21:05 By Ryan Naraine The CVE-2025-22457 has already been exploited by a China-nexus hacking gang notorious for breaking into edge network devices. The post Rapid7 Reveals RCE Path in Ivanti VPN Appliance After Silent Patch Debacle appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Ivanti VPN customers targeted via unrecognized RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)

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Ivanti VPN customers targeted via unrecognized RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457) 2025-04-03 at 21:01 By Zeljka Zorz A suspected Chinese APT group has exploited CVE-2025-22457 – a buffer overflow bug that was previously thought not to be exploitable – to compromise appliances running Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) 22.7R2.5 or earlier or Pulse Connect Secure 9.1x. The vulnerability

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Attackers are probing Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portals

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Attackers are probing Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portals 2025-04-01 at 14:21 By Zeljka Zorz Cybersecurity company GreyNoise is warning about a significant increase of scanning activity targeting internet-facing Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portals in the last 30 days, and has urged organizations with exposed systems to secure them and look for signs of compromise. “The

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China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN

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China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN 2025-01-22 at 08:04 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have uncovered a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean VPN provider, carried out by PlushDaemon, a newly identified China-aligned APT group. In this cyberespionage campaign, the attackers compromised the legitimate installer, replacing it with a malicious

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-December (CVE-2025-0282)

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-December (CVE-2025-0282) 2025-01-09 at 14:23 By Zeljka Zorz The zero-day attacks leveraging the Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-0282) made public on Wednesday were first spotted in mid-December 2024, Mandiant researchers have shared. It’s still impossible to say whether they were mounted by a single threat actor, but the

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited by attackers (CVE-2025-0282)

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited by attackers (CVE-2025-0282) 2025-01-08 at 21:49 By Zeljka Zorz Ivanti has fixed two vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and ZTA gateways, one of which (CVE-2025-0282) has been exploited as a zero-day by attackers to compromise Connect Secure VPN appliances. About CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283 Both are stack-based buffer overflow

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Researchers reveal exploitable flaws in corporate VPN clients

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Researchers reveal exploitable flaws in corporate VPN clients 2024-11-26 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in the update process of Palo Alto Networks (CVE-2024-5921) and SonicWall (CVE-2024-29014) corporate VPN clients that could be exploited to remotely execute code on users’ devices. CVE-2024-5921 CVE-2024-5921 affects various versions of Palo Alto’s GlobalProtect App on

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Microsoft Warns of OpenVPN Vulnerabilities, Potential for Exploit Chains

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Microsoft Warns of OpenVPN Vulnerabilities, Potential for Exploit Chains 2024-08-12 at 19:01 By Ryan Naraine The vulnerabilities, patched in OpenVPN 2.6.10, expose users on the Windows platform to remote code execution attacks. The post Microsoft Warns of OpenVPN Vulnerabilities, Potential for Exploit Chains appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS

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Port Shadow Attack Allows VPN Traffic Interception, Redirection

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Port Shadow Attack Allows VPN Traffic Interception, Redirection 2024-07-18 at 16:01 By Eduard Kovacs Researchers show how the Port Shadow technique against VPNs can allow MitM attacks, enabling threat actors to intercept and redirect traffic. The post Port Shadow Attack Allows VPN Traffic Interception, Redirection appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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PoC Published for Exploited Check Point VPN Vulnerability

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PoC Published for Exploited Check Point VPN Vulnerability 2024-06-03 at 15:46 By Ionut Arghire PoC code targeting a recent Check Point VPN zero-day has been released as Censys identifies 14,000 internet-accessible appliances. The post PoC Published for Exploited Check Point VPN Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed

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Check Point VPN Attacks Involve Zero-Day Exploited Since April

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Check Point VPN Attacks Involve Zero-Day Exploited Since April 2024-05-30 at 12:46 By Eduard Kovacs The recently disclosed Check Point VPN attacks involve the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-24919, which allows hackers to obtain passwords. The post Check Point VPN Attacks Involve Zero-Day Exploited Since April appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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Attackers are probing Check Point Remote Access VPN devices

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Attackers are probing Check Point Remote Access VPN devices 2024-05-28 at 12:46 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are trying to gain access to Check Point VPN devices via local accounts protected only by passwords, the company has warned on Monday. Their ultimate goal is to use that access to discover and pivot to other enterprise assets

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Check Point VPN Targeted for Initial Access in Enterprise Attacks

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Check Point VPN Targeted for Initial Access in Enterprise Attacks 2024-05-28 at 12:31 By Eduard Kovacs Check Point is warning customers that threat actors are targeting insecure VPN instances for initial access to enterprise networks. The post Check Point VPN Targeted for Initial Access in Enterprise Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an

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New ‘TunnelVision’ Technique Leaks Traffic From Any VPN System

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New ‘TunnelVision’ Technique Leaks Traffic From Any VPN System 2024-05-08 at 17:01 By Ionut Arghire A new VPN bypass technique allows threat actors to snoop on victims’ traffic by forcing it off the VPN tunnel using built-in features of DHCP. The post New ‘TunnelVision’ Technique Leaks Traffic From Any VPN System appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Attackers may be using TunnelVision to snoop on users’ VPN traffic (CVE-2024-3661)

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Attackers may be using TunnelVision to snoop on users’ VPN traffic (CVE-2024-3661) 2024-05-08 at 16:31 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have brought to light a new attack method – dubbed TunnelVision and uniquely identified as CVE-2024-3661 – that can be used to intercept and snoop on VPN users’ traffic by attackers who are on the same

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