Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
2026-06-04T13:23:38Z•824669455648afa9ad3da8519e22164098935312f511fabace3cdec8923e9222
AI social engineeringAWS GovCloudAdobe RCEBlueHammerCISACanvasChrome zero-dayDDoSInstagramKimwolfMetaPatch TuesdayRussian influence operationsScattered SpiderWindows SharePointaccount takeoveranti-DDoS abusebotnetcredential exposuredata extortiondata leakhosting takedownsupport-botzero-day
What happened
Multiple high-impact security incidents reported: attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to social-engineer Instagram password resets and briefly deface high-profile accounts; a CISA contractor publicly exposed highly privileged AWS GovCloud keys and internal secrets on GitHub; a widespread data-extortion breach of the Canvas education platform threatened data on ~275 million users; law enforcement in the Netherlands seized ~800 servers and arrested operators of hosting infrastructure alleged to have supported Russian cyber operations; Canadian and U.S. charges followed the arrest of the
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