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UK Online Safety Act Triggers Surge in VPN Use: What It Means for Digital Privacy In July 2025, the UK’s Online Safety Act officially enacted its child protection provisions, sparking an unexpected phenomenon: VPN usage surged by an astonishing 1,400% to 6,000%. This dramatic rise is more than a statistic—it reveals deep public concern over […]
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A significant data dump surfaced on DDoSecrets.com, purportedly extracted from a workstation belonging to a threat actor targeting organizations in South Korea and Taiwan. The leak, detailed in an accompanying article, attributes the activity to the No…
A Chrome extension marketed as FreeVPN.One, boasting over 100,000 installations, a verified badge, and featured placement in the Chrome Web Store, has been exposed as spyware that silently captures screenshots of users’ browsing activities and ex…
Researchers have uncovered deceptive practices among major VPN providers, linking seemingly independent entities into three distinct “families” with combined Google Play Store downloads exceeding 700 million. By analyzing business filings, …
Citizen Lab’s new report, Hidden Links, uncovers a network of VPN providers like Turbo VPN and VPN Monster…
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)…
Citizen Lab has identified links between multiple VPN providers, and multiple security weaknesses in their mobile applications.
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VexTrio, a sophisticated threat actor known for operating a massive traffic distribution system (TDS), has expanded its malicious activities by deploying fake VPN applications on major app stores, including Google Play and the Apple App Store. Originat…
GuidePoint Security uncovers a new Akira ransomware tactic targeting SonicWall VPNs. The group’s use of drivers to disable defenses is a significant threat to businesses.
The financially driven organization known as Dark Partners has been planning massive cryptocurrency theft since at least May 2025, using a complex network of more than 250 malicious domains that pose as AI tools, VPN services, cryptocurrency wallets, a…