Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
2026-06-07T13:23:27Z•86a42e688a9ff36d55de829b50945561603c89c254ae33756af571dd2f922e93
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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity's recent feed highlights multiple high-impact incidents: attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant via Telegram instructions to reset Instagram passwords and briefly deface high-profile accounts; a CISA contractor publicly exposed AWS GovCloud credentials and internal build/deploy secrets on GitHub leading to an ongoing agency breach response and Congressional inquiries; Dutch authorities seized ~800 servers and arrested two hosting company co-owners tied to infrastructure used by Russian influence/cyber operations; a suspected Kimwolf IoT botnet operator was arrested and is
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