Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

2026-08-19T20:51:39Zf0405e5ba3bf2e2eb443697119c2e54498027d83b57cc0f7c18e81b67510c211
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What happened

Ars Technica security feed covering major cybersecurity developments, including actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting Macs and Microsoft Exchange, credential theft and supply-chain compromise, remote device hijacking, phishing and social engineering, server management-controller weaknesses, account-takeover defenses, surveillance technology, AI-enabled attacks, and cryptographic research. Several items describe high-impact exploitation or large-scale data exposure, but the feed contains multiple separate stories and does not provide sufficient identifiers to map most items to specific,5

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