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Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation. She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isn't the solution.

Google's Threat Analysis Group, a team of security experts who defend Google users from state-sponsored attacks, has detected state hackers from several countries targeting the bug, including the Sandworm, APT28, and APT40 threat groups from Russia and China. In an early September attack, Russian Sandworm hackers delivered Rhadamanthys infostealer malware in phishing attacks using fake invitations to join a Ukrainian drone training school.

Google says that several state-backed hacking groups have joined ongoing attacks exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR, a compression software used by over 500 million users, aiming to gain arbitrary code execution on targets' systems. Google's Threat Analysis Group, a team of security experts who defend Google users from state-sponsored attacks, has detected state hackers from several countries targeting the bug, including the Sandworm, APT28, and APT40 threat groups from Russia and China.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog due to active exploitation, while...

Chipmaker Qualcomm has released security updates to address 17 vulnerabilities in various components, while warning that three other zero-days have come under active exploitation. Of the 17 flaws,...

Arm has released security patches to contain a security flaw in the Mali GPU Kernel Driver that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-4211, the shortcoming impacts...

Security researchers have spotted what they believe to be a "Possible mass exploitation" of vulnerabilities in Progress Software's WS FTP Server. Researchers at Rapid7 began noticing evidence of exploitation on 30 September across multiple instances of WS FTP. Progress released fixes for eight separate vulnerabilities in WS FTP on Wednesday, including one rated a maximum score of 10 on the CVSS severity scale.

Cisco is warning of attempted exploitation of a security flaw in its IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could permit an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution on...

Google has assigned a new CVE identifier for a critical security flaw in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format that has come under active exploitation in the wild....

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a recently patched security flaw in Microsoft's.NET and Visual Studio products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.