The AI Hijack: How Meta’s Automated Support Bot Became a Tool for Account Takeovers
In a stark illustration of the unintended consequences of rapid AI integration, Meta’s Instagram platform suffered a high-profile security breach over the weekend. The accounts of the Obama-era White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were seized by pro-Iranian actors, who used the compromised profiles to disseminate political imagery and…