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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] SonnyVabitch 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The researchers believe it affects all VPN applications when they’re connected to a hostile network and that there are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user's VPN runs on Linux or Android.

So presumably, home networks are safe, and you can also protect yourself out and about by hotspotting off of your android rather than connecting to a dodgy cafe wifi?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, that's suggested at the end of the article. Another workaround, they say, is to run your VPN connection from inside a virtual machine whose network interface is not in bridged mode.