Tests indicate that every VPN product is vulnerable on at least one device, the researchers say. VPNs for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and macOS are extremely likely to be vulnerable, that a majority of VPNs on Windows and Linux are vulnerable, and that Android is the most secure with roughly one-quarter of VPN apps being vulnerable.

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    "Both attacks manipulate the victim's routing table to trick the victim into sending traffic outside the protected VPN tunnel, allowing an adversary to read and intercept transmitted traffic. "
    

    I hate clickbait titles. A better title for this would be, local routing attack may expose some VPN traffic. It’s pretty esoteric, not seen in the wild, and requires your adversary to have control of your local network and exposes traffic of a very particular kind. These panic inducing headlines are just annoying and they desensitize us

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      Well, depending what your local network is, this could be a problem. I imagine cellphone networks i.e. could be affected.

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      have control of your local network

      traffic of a particular kind

      Could you give an example of what this looks like? I’m sure I’ll have friends sending me similar articles / YouTube videos. Would be nice to have a simple and accurate analogy

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    I wish they’d been more specific in the general description; this is a local routing attack that can be applied against clients of public VPN services.

    For a moment I was worried about my personal VPN, which is not configured in a way that this abuse could happen.

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      Traffic leaking has always been a concern when sitting up a VPN or any network infrastructure. Especially when you’re dealing with sensitive data. These concerns are old, and not sensational, new traffic leak discovered in local routing configuration of some VPN clients.

      The truly paranoid would have a always-on VPN, no traffic may go outside the VPN, defense in depth. A VM that can only talk to the VPN endpoint. You could use qubes to configure something bulletproof, mullvad even has an article explaining how to do this yourself.

      Just out of good hygiene I have leak checks in my computing systems. If they succeed it shuts everything down. Like if you open a browser it checks your external facing IP address. Imagine it’s pretty common for people.

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    It’s too bad they don’t offer a complete list of known patched VPNs. They just give like 5 example ones. It’d be really helpful to know if my service has patched already or not.