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  • Hacking Meta’s AI Chatbot

    Hacking Meta’s AI Chatbot Hackers are convincing Meta’s AI support chatbot to let them take over other peoples’ accounts: A video posted on X showed the step-by-step process to hack someone’s Instagram account. The hacker allegedly used a VPN to spoof the targets’ presumed location to avoid triggering Instagram’s automated account protections. Then, the hacker…

  • Meta’s own AI chatbot to blame for Instagram accounts being stolen in seconds

    Meta’s own AI chatbot to blame for Instagram accounts being stolen in seconds Hackers have been hijacking Instagram accounts at scale by exploiting Meta’s AI support chatbot. And, as if that weren’t bad enough, the technique required no technical skill whatsoever. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley

  • Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

    Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant” bot into…

  • Smashing Security podcast #466: Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired

    Smashing Security podcast #466: Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired Meta’s smart glasses promise privacy “designed for you” – but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When those workers blew the whistle, Meta sacked all 1,108 of them. Meanwhile, the IT press…

  • New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption

    New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If the “design choices create liability” framework seems worrying in the abstract, the New Mexico case provides a concrete example of where it leads in…

  • Meta’s AI Glasses and Privacy

    Meta’s AI Glasses and Privacy Surprising no one, Meta’s new AI glasses are a privacy disaster. I’m not sure what can be done here. This is a technology that will exist, whether we like it or not. Meanwhile, there is a new Android app that detects when there are smart glasses nearby. Bruce Schneier Go…

  • How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

    How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these…

  • Smashing Security podcast #455: Face off: Meta’s Glasses and America’s internet kill switch

    Smashing Security podcast #455: Face off: Meta’s Glasses and America’s internet kill switch Could America turn off Europe’s internet? That’s one of the questions that Graham and special guest James Ball will be exploring as they discuss tech sovereignty. Could Gmail, cloud services, and critical infrastructure really become geopolitical leverage? And is anyone actually building…

  • The AI Fix #85: ChatGPT gets ads, pets get AI therapists, and everyone’s wrong about LLMs

    The AI Fix #85: ChatGPT gets ads, pets get AI therapists, and everyone’s wrong about LLMs In episode 85 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that Silicon Valley has the solution to your pet’s mental health crisis, and Mark explains why AI godfather Yann LeCun thinks the entire AI industry is wrong about LLMs. Also…

  • White House Bans WhatsApp

    White House Bans WhatsApp Reuters is reporting that the White House has banned WhatsApp on all employee devices: The notice said the “Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved…

  • Smashing Security podcast #419: Star Wars, the CIA, and a WhatsApp malware mirage

    Smashing Security podcast #419: Star Wars, the CIA, and a WhatsApp malware mirage Why is a cute Star Wars fan website now redirecting to the CIA? How come Cambodia has become the world’s hotspot for scam call centres? And can a WhatsApp image really drain your bank account with a single download, or is it…

  • The AI Fix #49: The typo from hell

    The AI Fix #49: The typo from hell In episode 49 of The AI Fix, OpenAI kills off a sycophantic bot, our hosts are introduced to a prophetic Bosnian rock band, Meta puts an electric fence around its llamas, Mark reveals he’s never tried covering a robot with olive oil, and Graham leaves a stern…

  • WhatsApp Case Against NSO Group Progressing

    WhatsApp Case Against NSO Group Progressing Meta is suing NSO Group, basically claiming that the latter hacks WhatsApp and not just WhatsApp users. We have a procedural ruling: Under the order, NSO Group is prohibited from presenting evidence about its customers’ identities, implying the targeted WhatsApp users are suspected or actual criminals, or alleging that…