Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts
2026-06-02T20:51:52Z•b18f857bb5a8ddd4538947f23bba11b29be389947a6ac00311768b9f104034c0
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What happened
Ars Technica reported a wave of high-impact security incidents: attackers abused a Meta AI support chatbot to hijack and resell high-value Instagram accounts; dozens of Red Hat packages were backdoored via its official NPM channel; a 17+ million-device botnet tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network was dismantled; a critical vulnerability (“BadHost”) in the Starlette package imperiled millions of AI agents; a zero‑day exploit was disclosed that defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections; multiple severe Linux vulnerabilities (including CopyFail) and a supply‑chain backdoor in Da
Why it matters
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- arstechnica_security
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- b18f857bb5a8ddd4538947f23bba11b29be389947a6ac00311768b9f104034c0
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- 2026-06-02T20:51:52Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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