Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"
2026-05-25T20:51:46Z•ced4e09f60837b86f0b848d9409632ac15ebc4a0a582b031774d003f9d5e9c7f
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What happened
A May 2026 Ars Technica security feed highlights a wave of high-impact incidents: law enforcement claims to have hacked a VPN used by criminals; multiple supply-chain attacks (TeamPCP, a backdoor in Daemon Tools, compromised open-source packages like element-data) and targeted attacks on security firms; Google published exploit code for Chromium; a zero-day bypass of default Windows 11 BitLocker protections; repeated severe Linux vulnerabilities including the so-called CopyFail threat; exposed CISA credentials on a public GitHub repo; widespread disruption of the Canvas learning platform; and急
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- arstechnica_security
- Record identifier
- ced4e09f60837b86f0b848d9409632ac15ebc4a0a582b031774d003f9d5e9c7f
- Enrichment time
- 2026-05-25T20:51:46Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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