Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered

A newly discovered leak in Android allows any app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel.

Yet another leak was recently discovered in the Android network stack that allows a malicious app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel, even when "Block all connections without VPN" is active.

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Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered

September 10, 2026 Privacy

A newly discovered leak in Android allows any app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel.

Yet another leak was recently discovered in the Android network stack that allows a malicious app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel, even when "Block all connections without VPN" is active.

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