Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts
2026-06-02T08:51:47Z•5a6eb01fb755fec9d6f594c35a11819d605206984c047369099945b96c3ba905
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What happened
This Ars Technica security feed aggregates numerous high-risk incidents from late Apr–Jun 2026: attackers exploited a Meta AI support chatbot to hijack and resell high-value Instagram handles; dozens of Red Hat packages were backdoored via an official NPM channel and other supply‑chain compromises (including Daemon Tools and broad GitHub/TeamPCP activity) are widespread; a critical vulnerability (“BadHost”) in the Starlette package affecting many AI agents was disclosed; Google published exploit code for Chromium before a patch; a zero‑day was reported that defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker
Why it matters
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- 2026-06-02T08:51:47Z
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