Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to sell stolen data. A person claiming to be a member of ShinyHunters, which…
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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
Instagram accounts hacked using Meta AI
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Meta says hackers can no longer access accounts through its AI chatbot
Meta says hackers can no longer access accounts through its AI chatbot
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Hackers likely hijacked over 20k Instagram accounts with Meta's AI chatbot
Hackers likely hijacked over 20k Instagram accounts with Meta's AI chatbot
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Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked via AI Tool Abuse
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
Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
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A Top Google Search Result for Claude Plugins Was Planted by Hackers
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Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users
…Hackers planted malware that would harvest peoples’ credentials when they opened it in AI coding tools like Claude Code or Gemini CLI, according to one set of researchers. The exact contours of…
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…As a result, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily shut down our Free-For-Teacher accounts,” said Watkins, who also said that the hackers who defaced the login pages are…
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…In the past, only highly sophisticated hackers could pull off spear-phishing due to the sheer amount of time, research, and manual labor needed to launch targeted attacks. “AI just made the…
SoFi confirms third-party data breach at Hong Kong subsidiary
…PIN resets Oxford University discloses data breach after careers platform hack Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack Customer Data Data Breach Hong Kong SoFi Third-Party Data…