Attackers exploited Meta’s AI support chatbot to reset Instagram passwords and hijack accounts without accessing victims’ email inboxes. Attackers abused Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to reset Instagram passwords and hijack accounts without accessing victims’ email inboxes. The issue affected several users, including high-profile accounts, before Instagram fixed the flaw. Security researcher Jane Wong and other…
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Meta AI customer support tricked into forwarding password reset codes
Cybercriminals engaged with Meta’s AI chatbot, convincing it to initiate a password reset sequence for a user’s account without proper identity verification.
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AI chatbot recommendations lure users to cryptojacking malware sites
Cybercriminals are using AI chatbot interactions alongside poisoned search results to direct users to malicious download sites in an active cryptojacking campaign, Microsoft has warned. The campaign impersonates legitimate software tools such as CrystalDiskInfo, HWMonitor, Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU), FurMark, K-Lite Codec Pack, and PDFgear. Screenshot of search engine results showing a malicious source of…
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AI Chatbot Recommendations Redirect Users to Cryptojacking Malware Sites
Microsoft has warned of an active cryptojacking campaign that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot interactions as a mechanism for surfacing malicious download sites. “This emerging delivery technique extends social engineering beyond conventional search results and increases the visibility of malicious software recommendations,” Microsoft Defender Experts and the Microsoft
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ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack?
OpenAI’s chatbot dispenses advice on weapons and role-plays mass shootings. The carnage is raising scrutiny on when and how companies intervene.
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A Factory That Runs on Recycled EV Batteries
Plus, Dairy Queen’s chatbot, the NYSE embraces crypto and the Bezos vs. Musk space race.
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Anthropic Adds Novartis CEO to Board
The startup behind the popular Claude chatbot and coding tool is eyeing a potential IPO as soon as this year.
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How to Switch AI Chatbots—and Why You Might Want To
Your chatbot has a file on you. Here’s how to access, edit and migrate your AI’s memories.
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A chatbot is not an AI strategy
GUEST OPINION: Most businesses asking for a chatbot are actually asking for something else entirely. The trouble is, they do not know it yet.
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I Uploaded My Blood Work to AI. Am I Oversharing?
When you connect medical records and health data to a chatbot, you get results. But you must understand the risks.
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How I Stop AI From Telling Me What I Want to Hear
Chatbot sycophancy may make us feel good. But it creates all sorts of problems.
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The Unexpected Risk of Letting ChatGPT Fact-Check Your Financial Adviser
Research shows that advisers find it more insulting to be double-checked by a chatbot than by a human rival.
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Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.
A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.
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UK sets course for stricter AI chatbot regulation
The UK government has announced immediate action to force AI chatbot providers to comply with laws requiring online platforms to protect children from illegal and harmful content. Providers that fail to meet these duties will face legal consequences. This follows recent intervention after non-consensual intimate images were shared through the AI chatbot Grok, prompting the…
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Meet the One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals
The tech company has tasked Amanda Askell with giving its chatbot, Claude, a sense of right and wrong.
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Meet the One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals
The tech company has tasked Amanda Askell with giving its chatbot, Claude, a sense of right and wrong.
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This Tech Turns Loved Ones Into Compost After Death
Plus, families worry about chatbot clinginess and non-tech firms bet big on AI.