Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic (opens in new tab)

A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel. As reported in the post The Tiny UDP Cannon: An Android VPN Bypass, Android 16 introduced a bug that allows a malicious app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel, including with “Always-On VPN” + “Block connections without VPN” turned on. This affects all VPN apps, not just Mullvad VPN. This blog post aims to spread knowledge about this issue to help keep our users safe. Having traffic leak outside...