Some AI cybersecurity threats are incredibly simple. They’re still dangerous. On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts.

May was quite the month for Hannah Einbinder. After five seasons, her Emmy-winning HBO Max series Hacks came to end with an emotional episode that ought to put Einbinder right back into the Emmy race, ...

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions ...

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a ...

Meta’s AI support chatbot proved unusually helpful to hackers looking to steal and resell notable Instagram accounts—the hackers simply asking the bot to change the accounts’ associated email ...

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, announced it is offering some U.S. travelers two years of free credit monitoring after a data breach leaked the personal information of nearly ...

Computational journalist focused on data, policy, and public life. Chris Hacker is a computational journalist on The Washington Post’s national desk, analyzing data to understand how broad trends ...

GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said ...

A hacker group stole data from more than 9,000 schools using an exploit in Instructure's service. Now the House Homeland Security Committee is getting involved. Tyler is a writer for CNET covering ...

The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle ...

Google's Threat Intelligence Group said hackers are using AI models such as OpenClaw to uncover and exploit zero-day software vulnerabilities. The group said in a report that it had uncovered and ...

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 ...