Meta thought it had stopped NSO Group. It says the spyware firm did not get the message. The company is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO, the Israeli maker of the Pegasus hacking tool, accusing it of violating a permanent injunction th…
Hackers likely took over 20,225 Instagram accounts using Meta’s AI support chatbot, the company confirmed in a notice filed with the state of Maine. In the notice, spotted earlier by Bleeping Computer, Meta blames a “bug” for the exploit that allowed attackers to hijack accounts without two-factor authentication simply by asking the chatbot for a […]
The bill is expected to blanket ban companies and startups from selling people’s precise location data across the state.
Britain’s banks, telecoms, and weapons-makers have a new shared anxiety: that the AI they increasingly run on is built, owned, and controlled in the United States. A startup barely three years old is betting they will pay to fix it. Cosine, a UK fronti…
The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members sh…
We now know the scale of last week’s incident as Meta reports it to the Maine AG.
In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobacco…
A bug in a third-party system was leveraged to steal emails on a yet undisclosed number of people.
In May, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed the first known case of an AI system discovering and weaponising a zero-day exploit that was then deployed in the wild. A criminal actor used a frontier model to find a two-factor authentication bypa…