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Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

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Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming

Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.

Highly reviewed speaker can be hacked over the air to infect connected devices

Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.

Hacker News, Sans AI

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After initial denial, CBSE invited ethical hacker to plug gaps in IT system

Google and FBI warn of ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to hack victims in person

Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms' offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools.

The Download: AI hacking beyond Mythos, and chatbots’ impact on our brains

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On Monday, reports emerged that attackers had used Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was…

IIT denies JEE-Advanced data breach claim: 'Minimal, temporary misconfiguration’

Says tech interventions were carried out to ensure smooth functioning of registration process, which led to issue that was reported by a hacker and rectified

The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One attacker broke into the dormant Obama White House account and made pro-Iran…

ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

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The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

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Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers’ wellness data via internal tool

The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.

Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks

Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.

The worst hacks and breaches of 2026 (so far)

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.

Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

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Meta says hackers can no longer access accounts through its AI chatbot

Meta says it has resolved an issue that allowed hackers to trick its AI assistant into granting access to other users' accounts, according to media reports.

Hackers used Meta's AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts

The flaw let attackers bypass two-factor authentication by asking the bot to swap the email tied to a target account

They tricked Meta's chatbot to hack into Instagram accounts. It's a warning about how much we trust AI.

Tomas Stamulis, the chief security officer at the cybersecurity company Surfshark, compared Meta's AI assistant to "an inexperienced employee."