Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. In this scenario, users indeed get to use a free VPN service, but they are often unaware that doing so will turn their computer into a proxy that lets others use their Internet address to transact online. “The 911[.]re

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2025

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. Such infrastructure may be made up of rented servers, free hosting services, VPN services, and temporary e-mail address creation services. ” continues the report. In 2023, they used free web services like InfinityFree and Mocky.IO

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

Citrix reported that successful exploitation requires that the appliance is configured as a Gateway (VPN virtual server, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy) OR AAA virtual server. Then threat actors sent data as an image file to a web-accessible path: cp /var/tmp/test.tar.gz /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/medialogininit.png. php) on victim machines.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. The attackers connects to a dedicated commercially-shared VPN server using OpenVPN and then uses compromised email credentials to send out credential spam via a commercial email service provider. ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. For the generation of remote work and operations, Check Point Remote Access VPN offers central management and policy administration for controlling access to corporate networks.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. Geo-blocking is a really weak, easily circumvented control that often does more harm than good. Blocking Paste.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2016, Verizon had to settle with the FCC over its use of a supercookie, which tracked the websites visited by phones on its network. But I asked German privacy expert Andreas Dewes and he responded: “a device level VPN with integrated DNS should be able to block this kind of tracking.”. We’ll keep you posted.

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