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Hackers Exploit Meta's AI Bot to Hijack Instagram Accounts

This weekend, hackers exploited a vulnerability in Meta's AI-powered customer support tool to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts, highlighting the platform's notoriously poor human support infrastructure. A simple sequence of steps, documented in a video circulated on Telegram, allowed attackers to add a new email address to an account and seize control.

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Pro-Iran Hackers Extort Canonical with Sustained DDoS Attacks

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is battling a relentless cyber assault, with its website crippled by a sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that has left its main site inaccessible. The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, also known as 313 Team, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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