The problem is almost entirely due to Meta's customer support now being run by AI. The tech giant made the switch back in March, saying it would enable "24/7 help for account issues like updating your password and settings for your profile." But with the AI chatbot handling the whole process, humans couldn't step in when suspicious activity began. That allowed hackers to carry out the social engineering-style attack and pull it off multiple times before anyone noticed. Per Cybersecurity News, security researchers ZachXBT and Dark Web Informer were the first to publicly expose the exploit, but
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Instagram accounts hacked using Meta AI
Meta says hackers can no longer access accounts through its AI chatbot
Hackers likely hijacked over 20k Instagram accounts with Meta's AI chatbot
Meta says roughly 20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a recent attack abusing an AI-powered account recovery support tool.
Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
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…Adding to the confusion around the hack, a group going by the well-known name Lapsus$ claimed this week that it had breached Mercor. In a Telegram account and on a BreachForums…
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As agentic AI models become more adept at both autonomously identifying software vulnerabilities and developing exploits for them—in other words, identifying weaknesses and creating hacking tools—vulnerability disclosure programs are being…
