Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"
2026-05-24T20:51:50Z•1caddd7775eeb027590448e2ea2454bcdacb6a90493d985ccb0e263f93a55a80
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What happened
A series of high-impact security stories: law enforcement intercepted traffic and hacked a VPN service to arrest its operator; widespread software supply-chain attacks (TeamPCP, a monthlong backdoor in Daemon Tools, compromised element‑data package, and incidents affecting Checkmarx/Bitwarden) continue to spread; credential exposure (including CISA SSH keys and plaintext secrets in a public GitHub repo) and an Ubuntu outage interfered with coordinated disclosure. Multiple critical vulnerabilities and exploit developments were reported: Google published Chromium exploit code, a zero‑day defeats
Why it matters
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- arstechnica_security
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- 2026-05-24T20:51:50Z
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- Yes
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