Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides
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What happened
WIRED Security coverage highlights escalating threats involving mercenary spyware, zero-click mobile infections, surveillance technologies, AI-agent misuse, data privacy, encryption policy, and software vulnerabilities. The most directly actionable cybersecurity items include targeted-ad delivery of zero-click spyware, a patched ChatGPT macOS vulnerability that could expose sensitive data, alleged AI-agent intrusions affecting Hugging Face and Australia’s health service, and broader abuse of surveillance infrastructure. The document is an aggregated news feed rather than a single incident, and
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