In A.I. Blunder, More Than 34,000 Instagram Accounts Were Attacked

The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial ...

Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

According to security firm Cloudsmith and community-driven malware analysis site OpenSourceMalware, which were some of the ...

Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack

Meta has revealed that 20,225 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked in a recent incident where attackers used Meta's AI ...
AOL

Scammers are using a fake captcha hack to steal your personal information: ‘Verify you’re human.’ Here’s the big red flag to watch for

Clicking a captcha "I am not a robot" box and identifying images to prove it is second nature for many internet users. Now, cybercriminals are exploiting people's comfort with the routine to scam them ...
Lifehacker

I Refused to Use Passkeys Until Apple Added This Feature to Its Passwords App

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. I'm strongly in favor of using password ...
Lifehacker

10 Hacks Every Apple Passwords User Should Know

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Google Says Hackers Used AI to Build Zero-Day Exploit

Google says hackers used AI to help build a zero-day exploit targeting 2FA, raising concerns about AI-assisted hacking.
The Verge

Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI

Google researchers found evidence in the exploit’s code that it may have been created using AI, like a ‘hallucinated’ CVSS score. Google researchers found evidence in the exploit’s code that it may ...
The New York Times

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert ...
Bleeping Computer

JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers, with the Windows payload found deploying a Python-based ...
TechSpot

Kaspersky warns that passwords hashed with MD5 algorithm can be cracked in minutes using a GPU

Facepalm: A couple of years ago, Kaspersky Lab tested the resilience of hashed passwords against a modern gaming GPU. Now, the Moscow-based security firm has updated its study and found that things ...
Wired

Use Gmail’s ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Tool to Cut Down on Inbox Clutter

The majority of us have learned to live with overflowing inboxes stuffed with hundreds or thousands of unread emails. If that's not your experience, consider yourself lucky. Over the years, Gmail has ...