Meta and Yandex Exploit Android Vulnerability; ANSSI Warns of Post-Quantum Transition

Meta and Yandex have exploited an Android vulnerability to link users' web history to their real identities, bypassing privacy measures such as cookie refusal and private browsing. This practice, ongoing for years, allows their web scripts to communicate with their apps installed on phones. The ANSSI warns about the post-quantum transition, highlighting that the majority of regulated actors have neither planned nor budgeted for this transition due to a poor understanding of the issues and a lack of resources. The CIA used a Star Wars fan site to communicate secretly with its informants. A French entrepreneur was the victim of an attempted scam by an AI impersonating his former boss on WhatsApp. The Italian government has ended the use of an Israeli spyware after revelations about the surveillance of local journalists and activists.