A security researcher disclosed a critical broken access control vulnerability in FIFA's internal World Cup broadcast system. Because the backend API performed no authorization verification, any registered user could gain full administrative access to the live broadcast backend. This would have allowed modification of real-time video streams and match data; FIFA says the flaw has since been patched.
Simon Willison highlights a 404 Media report about hackers taking over Instagram accounts through Meta's AI support bot. A video reportedly shows an attacker asking the bot to link a target account to a new email address and providing a code. Willison argues this barely qualifies as prompt injection: the core failure was granting a support bot enough authority to fast-forward the account recovery process.
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