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Microsoft: September Windows updates break Always On VPN connections
Microsoft has notified IT administrators that users may experience Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. Always On VPN is a remote access solution that replaces the legacy DirectAccess technology and works with domain-joined, non-domain-joined, and Microsoft Entra ID–joined devices. It is available on Windows 10, Windows 11, […]
Japan’s Digital Agency says VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records
Japan’s Digital Agency has discovered a data breach that may have exposed around 246,000 record rows containing personal information of government employees. The agency says that the attacker gained initial access by exploiting a vulnerability in a VPN device used by the Government Solution Service (GSS). An investigation started on June 25, after the agency […]
Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent
The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103. Although no public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been reported, the agency is urging organizations to install the security updates addressing the two issues as soon as possible. “The NCSC assesses […]
Surfshark VPN says hackers breached internal testing, proxy servers
Surfshark disclosed that hackers accessed one of its internal test servers after a configuration error exposed it to the internet. The VPN service provider said the incident did not affect its customers and did not extend to other parts of its infrastructure, but it exposed service configurations and build-related credentials. “Due to a human error, […]
Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy
More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users’ traffic through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a single provider. Some of the extensions impersonated dozens of established brands, including Proton VPN, NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, and Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 public domain name system (DNS) resolver. Researchers at […]
Sandworm hackers target IT pros with trojanized WireGuard VPN client
Hackers associated with the Russian threat group Sandworm have been targeting system administrators and IT professionals through fake job offers since at least May. A report from the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) details a social engineering campaign attributed to UAC-0145, which is believed to be a sub-cluster of Sandworm (APT44). In the campaign, […]
Critical Palo Alto VPN bug now exploited by Qilin ransomware gang
The Qilin ransomware gang is exploiting a critical PAN-OS GlobalProtect authentication bypass flaw to breach victims’ networks, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. Palo Alto Networks addressed the vulnerability (CVE-2026-0257) on May 13 and warned that attackers had begun abusing it to breach corporate networks after Rapid7 reported observing it being exploited against numerous customers starting on […]
US sanctions VPN, malware providers for enabling ransomware attacks
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and one entity for enabling ransomware attacks against U.S. organizations. On Monday, OFAC designated First VPN Service (1VPNS), a virtual private network provider that sold services to ransomware groups, and its administrator, Dmytro Rashevskyi. Since it surfaced in 2014, 1VPNS has advertised on […]
FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials
Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to harvest authentication secrets from compromised firewalls and steal credentials. The report, published today, expands on the company’s previous research into the large-scale “FortiBleed” campaign, which revealed a collection of Fortinet VPN credentials associated with more than 80,000 firewall URLs worldwide. According to SOCRadar, […]
FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices.
A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide. The exposed data was first discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko, who says he found a server containing what appeared to be valid Fortinet VPN credentials, including […]