… According to security researchers, the AI tool made it ridiculously easy for hackers to take over the accounts, even if they were protected by two-factor authentication. The exploit was flagged over the weekend by numerous security researchers on X. …
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… Gergely Orosz, the creator of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, writes on X that Instagram’s trust and safety team was “absolutely gutted” over the last several weeks due to layoffs and reassignments to tasks like AI labeling. “Apparently this was not a sophisticated hack,” Orosz writes. “But engi…
… The security lapse follows Meta’s massive corporate layoffs and reassignments to AI initiatives, which reportedly shrank Instagram’s Trust and Safety division by 60%. …
… Over the last several days, Telegram groups for security researchers and hacking groups have been sharing videos and screenshots of the steps taken to steal an account, which appeared to be shockingly easy. …
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… As MIVD director Vice-Admiral Peter Reesink put it: "Despite their end-to-end encryption option, messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp should not be used as channels for classified, confidential or sensitive information." In other words, if your operational security plan relies on the hope tha…