The key icon is the common VPN is active icon but no clue as to what that dot icon is for. If you disable the BitDefender VPN sevice, since there's that 'B' icon next to each, do one or both of those two icons go away?

 

Nothing to worry about, we all have those

 

If my guess it right, it just means that there are other notifications that are less important than the ones that are showing in your status bar.

There are notifications for other apps, but the notifications that are on your status bar now are currently considered more important.

So the dots appear to let you know that there are more notifications that you can't readilly see.

Anyway, if it bothers you, there is a selection available for each app's notifications- Allow notification Dot- that you can turn off.

 

^this.

When there are too many notifications to fit it puts a dot or dots to show that there are extra notifications. Unfortunately it does this before you actually run out of space because the system is designed to accommodate phones with notches. If you had pulled the notification slide down you'd have seen the extra notifications.

It's been this way since Android 8. No tinfoil required.

 

Hadron is spot - on, as I get these dots also. Nothing to worry about and stop being rude on the forums as moderators will monitor your posts....