Meta tackles AI-generated accounts with a free Facebook verification badge

2026-07-24T14:51:49Z7277497084cc647d6def3c16513f6ad8930fefbaf869a723e5815100cbfd2168
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What happened

This feed highlights multiple security developments: Meta and Google are rolling out biometric verification (Facebook Verified selfie checks; Google selfie video sign-in) to combat AI-generated/bot accounts, while Google previewed CodeMender—an AI agent that finds and suggests fixes for code vulnerabilities. Microsoft will require TPM-backed attestation for KMS in the next LTSC to harden enterprise activation. Critically, a joint advisory attributes prolonged exploitation of an unpatched Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaw (CVE-2025-66376) to the Russian state-aligned Laundry Bear group, used to盗窃

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