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SafePay Ransomware Hit 600+ Organizations — and Hid Behind the VPN You Trust

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Original illustration: a dark server room where shadowy hooded figures dissolve into streams of encrypted data flowing through a glowing VPN tunnel, red warning lights on backup servers behind, teal-and-amber cinematic grade

In brief A joint advisory (AA26-293A), published October 20, 2026, by CISA, the FBI, the US Secret Service, Germany’s Landeskriminalamt Rheinland-Pfalz, and two UK agencies, names SafePay one of the most active ransomware operations of 2026. SafePay has affected at least 600 organizations across multiple critical infrastructure sectors since August 2024, with victims in North … Read more

VPN Not Connecting on Public Wi-Fi: How to Fix It

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Illustration of a traveller with a laptop in an airport lounge, a Wi-Fi symbol with a half-open padlock overhead, and a glowing tunnel punching through a translucent firewall wall

Hotel Wi-Fi, airport Wi-Fi, cafe Wi-Fi — the networks you most want a VPN on are the ones most likely to break it. Three causes explain nearly every failure, and they fix in a specific order. Work the ladder below before you blame the VPN. In brief Hotel, cafe and airport Wi-Fi block VPNs in … Read more

VPNs Explained: How They Work, What They Protect, and How to Choose One

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Illustration of a laptop at night with its connection shown as a glowing tunnel running through servers to a globe, with a faint dotted path showing the unprotected route

A VPN is one of the most oversold products on the internet. It does one thing well — it moves who can see your traffic — and a long list of things it does not do at all. This guide explains both, by threat model, so you buy for the right reason or not at … Read more