Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"
2026-05-26T08:51:42Z•76c3e7d590fe44049094eeaad6301b290e9b16659d79b2305c666d9abf75d91e
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What happened
A cluster of high-impact security incidents and trends emerged in May 2026: law enforcement reportedly hacked a VPN and seized infrastructure; widespread software supply‑chain attacks (including backdoored Daemon Tools and targeted compromises of security vendors like Checkmarx and Bitwarden) and a malicious OSS package (element-data) exfiltrating credentials; Google published exploit code for Chromium before a patch; a zero-day bypass reportedly defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker; multiple severe Linux vulnerabilities (including CopyFail) and urgent production patches; Ubuntu infrastructure
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- Source ID
- arstechnica_security
- Record identifier
- 76c3e7d590fe44049094eeaad6301b290e9b16659d79b2305c666d9abf75d91e
- Enrichment time
- 2026-05-26T08:51:42Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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