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Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers
Google announced Android 17 will enforce OS-wide Encrypted Client Hello with ECH GREASE, plus Certificate Transparency by default and carrier 2G disablement.
Google announced Android 17 network security protections headlined by OS-wide support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), with ECH GREASE enabled by default so connections to non-ECH servers look identical. Google's Jigsaw noted OkHttp has integrated ECH, letting third-party Android apps adopt the standard. The release also enforces Local Network Protection permission prompts, enables Certificate Transparency by default, and lets carriers turn off 2G by default to prevent downgrade attacks, rogue base stations, and SMS blasters. ECH was previously added to Chrome 117 and Firefox 118 at the browser level only.
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Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns
CISA, NSA and FBI warn Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models via distillation campaigns.
A joint CISA, NSA and FBI advisory says China-based firms including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI have run industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns against US frontier models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since at least late 2024, likely with Chinese government knowledge. The campaigns used gray-market API proxies called transfer stations, premium account pools and traffic routing to bypass restrictions, evade safeguards and exfiltrate billions of tokens used to train models like DeepSeek R1/V3 and Kimi. The agencies challenge DeepSeek's reported $5.6 million training cost and recommend identity verification, usage monitoring, response variation, differential privacy and indicator sharing as defenses.
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Windows 11 cumulative updates KB5124008 & KB5122880 released
Microsoft shipped mandatory September 2026 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates KB5124008 and KB5122880 for Windows 11, fixing vulnerabilities and adding features.
Microsoft released Windows 11 KB5124008 (versions 25H2/24H2) and KB5122880 (23H2) cumulative updates containing the September 2026 Patch Tuesday security patches, described as covering 1,000 vulnerabilities discovered in previous months. The updates are mandatory and add features including movable and resizable taskbars, Start menu customization, a Windows Search option to hide Bing and Store web suggestions, and Administrator Protection, a just-in-time admin privilege feature that is off by default and configurable via Intune OMA-URI or Group Policy.
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