Meta Launches New Protection Tools as It Helps Disrupt Scam Centers
2026-03-12T13:24:07Z•47dab428938905b5501908c6bbf25d6f7d41e00702e0ac92e86a009cb4d89a35
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What happened
Feed of SecurityWeek headlines covering multiple high-impact incidents and patches: Meta disabled over 150,000 accounts tied to scam centers in Asia and rolled out new protection tools; an SQL injection flaw in the Ally WordPress plugin exposes ~200,000 sites and allows data exfiltration; Splunk and Zoom released patches for critical/high flaws (including RCE and privilege escalation); Cisco fixed high-severity IOS XR vulnerabilities enabling DoS, command execution or device takeover; critical unauthenticated vulnerabilities in n8n allowed arbitrary code execution, credential theft and server‑
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