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The week in Cybersecurity
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Oracle disclosed an unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaw and urged immediate patching amid active attacks; follow-up coverage tied the zero-day to hundreds of organizations and gigabytes of stolen data.
AI-related security concerns appeared across the week, moving from malware that activates under AI agents to AI-assisted scams, espionage, and disputes over tools' security. The recurrence points to AI becoming a widening cybersecurity battleground rather than one isolated flaw.
A bug in Meta's AI support chatbot exposed recovery paths without two-factor authentication and likely enabled about 20,225 Instagram account takeovers; the incident resurfaced the next day as a 20,000-account breach tied to the same flaw.
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