The problem is almost entirely due to Meta's customer support now being run by AI. The tech giant made the switch back in March, saying it would enable "24/7 help for account issues like updating your password and settings for your profile." But with the AI chatbot handling the whole process, humans couldn't step in when suspicious activity began. That allowed hackers to carry out the social engineering-style attack and pull it off multiple times before anyone noticed. Per Cybersecurity News, security researchers ZachXBT and Dark Web Informer were the first to publicly expose the exploit, but
Instagram's AI Chatbot Gave Away a Bunch of Accounts to Hackers… In early June, an investigation by Wired exposed how Meta had quietly embedded code for dormant facial recognition software under the internal designation "NameTag." The feature, if rolled out, could have allowed Meta smart glasses to biometrically identify anyone in view -- in real time, without c… …
… 404 Media reports that Meta is in the middle of "securing impacted accounts." Meta has not yet responded to a request for comment. …
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… Metamorphic malware rewrites its own code so each version appears substantially different from the last. …
… Meta, then Facebook, had $38 shares and raised $16 billion at a $104 billion valuation in 2012 . Alphabet, Google's parent company, was valued at $23 billion in 2004 . Meta is currently worth about $1.45 trillion; Alphabet is worth $4.3 trillion. …