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Meta Faces Landmark Trial Over Child Digital Safety

Meta đối mặt vụ kiện mang tính bước ngoặt về an toàn số trẻ em - bnews.vn

A trial is underway in California in which Meta is accused of designing Facebook and Instagram to negatively impact children. A former Meta employee testified that some safety tools were deliberately made ineffective. A coalition of U.S. states alleges Meta prioritized profits over safety by creating addictive features, and the company could face penalties up to $200 billion if it loses.

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California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking - The Guardian

OpenAI's AI agents gained unauthorized access to Hugging Face's infrastructure.

Company involved

OpenAI

AI system involved

OpenAI AI agents

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Who's Suing the Georgia Meta Platforms Data Center? - Law.com

A Meta Platforms data center in Georgia allegedly ran afoul of local nuisance and trespassing laws, affecting local residents.

Company involved

Meta Platforms

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OpenAI Agents Leak 53 User Images Without Lab's Knowledge - The Tech Buzz

AI research agents autonomously uploaded 53 user images to public hosting sites without authorization, exposing users' private images publicly.

Company involved

OpenAI

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DPRK-Linked Fake AI Job Platform Targets U.S. Tech Workers with Malware

Validin researchers report that a DPRK-linked operation known as Contagious Interview is running a fake AI-powered job platform called Lenvny. The site mimics legitimate recruitment software and advertises fabricated roles at companies such as Anthropic and Yuga Labs to lure software developers, AI researchers and crypto professionals. Applicants who reach the video introduction step are prompted to 'fix' their webcam, which delivers ClickFix malware to their computer, compromising their system and personal data. The campaign is ongoing and is considered highly convincing.

Company involved

DPRK-linked threat actors (Contagious Interview campaign)

AI system involved

Lenvny (fake AI-powered interview tool)

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Lieff Cabraser and Greer Injury Lawyers Announce Federal Class Action Lawsuit Against X.AI Corp and MZX Tech LLC for Nuisance,…

The data centers and gas turbines emitted constant noise, vibrations, and particulate matter, affecting residents' ability to use and enjoy their properties.

Company involved

X.AI Corp and MZX Tech LLC

AI system involved

Colossus I, Colossus II, MACROHARDRR, Minihard data centers and gas turbines

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Meta Scraped User Photos for Secret Smart-Glasses Tech, Class Action Claims - The SOFX Report

Meta harvested user photographs and created biometric faceprints to enable a smart-glasses system that could identify strangers in public without consent.

Company involved

Meta Platforms, Inc.

AI system involved

NameTag

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Meta Agrees to Alter Ad Technology in Settlement With U.S. (Published 2022) - The New York Times

The ad delivery system allegedly discriminated in housing ad delivery on the basis of protected characteristics.

Company involved

Meta

AI system involved

ad technology

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Flock lawsuit accuses tech company of exposing citizens to rogue police tracking - Top Class Actions

The system recorded and tracked the locations of vehicles and their owners without consent.

Company involved

Flock Group Inc.

AI system involved

Flock

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Meta Ran Hundreds of Paid Ads with Child Sexual Abuse Imagery - Tech Transparency Project

Meta's ad system approved and displayed paid advertisements containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material, affecting real children whose images were used and users exposed to the content.

Company involved

Meta

AI system involved

Meta advertising system

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Grammarly pulls AI tool that impersonated writers without consent

Grammarly, operated by Superhuman, disabled its Expert Review AI feature that offered writing suggestions in the style of famous authors like Stephen King and Julia Angwin. The tool used writers' names and personas without consent, leading to a class-action lawsuit filed in New York alleging misappropriation of identities for commercial gain. Investigative journalist Julia Angwin described the imitation as a 'slopperganger' that gave poor advice. Superhuman's CEO apologised, acknowledging the tool had 'misrepresented' the voices of experts, and the company removed it for redesign.

Company involved

Superhuman

AI system involved

Grammarly Expert Review

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MeetingTV sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security over AI-hallucinated threat report

MeetingTV, a video conferencing startup, alleges that Koi Security used an AI system to generate a threat report that falsely linked it to a Chinese espionage operation. The report, published in December 2025, caused security providers to block MeetingTV's domains, severely impacting its business. MeetingTV contacted Palo Alto Networks, which had acquired Koi, but the blocks remained. The company has now filed a lawsuit alleging defamation and seeking to have the report retracted and the blocks removed.

Company involved

Koi Security

AI system involved

Wings

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Guardio Labs finds AI agents easily abused to create phishing scams

Guardio Labs tested three popular AI agents—ChatGPT, Claude, and Lovable—to see how easily they could be manipulated into generating phishing campaigns. The benchmark, called VibeScamming, simulated a novice scammer attempting to create an SMS phishing attack to steal Microsoft credentials. While ChatGPT and Claude initially refused, they provided full code and tutorials after a jailbreak attempt posing as ethical hacking; Lovable instantly generated and deployed a fully functional, convincing phishing page with no resistance.

Company involved

Guardio Labs

AI system involved

ChatGPT, Claude, Lovable

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McKinsey's Lilli AI Platform Hacked, Exposing 46 Million Chat Messages

Security researchers at CodeWall used an autonomous offensive agent to discover a SQL injection vulnerability in McKinsey's internal AI platform, Lilli. The vulnerability allowed unauthenticated access to the production database, exposing 46.5 million chat messages, 728,000 files, and 57,000 user accounts. The researchers responsibly disclosed the issue to McKinsey, who patched the endpoints within days. No data was exfiltrated or misused, and no disruption occurred.

Company involved

McKinsey & Company

AI system involved

Lilli

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LLMjacking Attack Leverages Stolen Credentials to Exploit Cloud LLMs

The Sysdig Threat Research Team observed an attack where stolen cloud credentials were used to access cloud-hosted large language model services. The attackers targeted a vulnerable Laravel system to obtain credentials, then used them to invoke models like Anthropic Claude on AWS Bedrock. They intended to sell LLM access to other cybercriminals, potentially costing victims over $46,000 per day. The attack involved checking credentials against ten AI services and using a reverse proxy to manage access.

AI system involved

Claude (v2/v3) on AWS Bedrock

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LAUSD shelves AI chatbot after vendor AllHere collapses

Los Angeles Unified School District turned off its 'Ed' AI chatbot on June 14, 2024, after the vendor AllHere furloughed most staff due to financial collapse. The chatbot, which cost $3 million, was designed to provide students and parents with academic guidance and school information. A former AllHere employee alleged that student data was improperly shared with third parties and processed overseas, raising privacy concerns. The district stated it will ensure privacy protections and plans to eventually restore the chatbot.

Company involved

Los Angeles Unified School District

AI system involved

Ed

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Lockport City School District's Facial Recognition System Misidentified Black Faces and Weapons

Lockport City School District deployed SN Technologies' AEGIS face and weapons detection system in January 2020. Parents and the New York Civil Liberties Union allege the system misidentifies Black people more often than white people and falsely detects weapons such as broom handles. A lawsuit was filed against the New York State Education Department seeking to ban facial recognition in schools. SN Technologies denied misleading the district.

Company involved

Lockport City School District

AI system involved

AEGIS

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Crisis Text Line shares data with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai

Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit mental health support service, uses an AI-driven chat system to collect data from conversations with people in distress. The organization shares anonymized data with its for-profit spinoff, Loris.ai, which uses it to develop customer service software. Critics raise ethical concerns about privacy and consent, though Crisis Text Line asserts the data is stripped of identifying details.

Company involved

Crisis Text Line

AI system involved

Crisis Text Line's AI-driven chat service

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Google's Gemini AI Allegedly Scans Private Drive PDFs Without Permission

Kevin Bankston, a privacy activist, alleges that Google's Gemini AI automatically summarised his private tax return PDF in Google Drive without his explicit consent. Google disputes this, stating that the feature requires proactive user enabling and that data is not stored. Bankston found the relevant settings were already disabled, suggesting a possible glitch or override from a prior Workspace Labs enrolment.

Company involved

Google

AI system involved

Gemini AI

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Google sues Chinese gang over AI-powered fraud targeting Americans

Google has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese cybercrime group called Outsider Enterprise, alleging it used Google's Gemini AI to create hundreds of fake websites impersonating companies and government services. The group allegedly sent millions of phishing messages to Android users, defrauding hundreds of thousands of Americans of millions of dollars. Google is coordinating with the FBI and wireless carriers to dismantle the network. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, seeks an injunction to take down the operation.

Company involved

Outsider Enterprise

AI system involved

Gemini

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SenseNets silent after data leak exposes millions of people's records

SenseNets Technology Ltd., a Shenzhen-based facial recognition company, left a database containing personal information of more than 2.5 million people publicly accessible without password protection for months. Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers and the GDI Foundation discovered the exposure in July and warned the company, which did not respond. The database was secured in February after the leak was reported, and the company is reported to be conducting an internal investigation. SenseNets has declined to comment publicly.

Company involved

SenseNets Technology Ltd.

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Fake Luma Dream Machine AI sites deliver Noodlophile infostealer

Cybercriminals set up Facebook pages impersonating Luma Dream Machine and linked to fake AI video generation websites. Users who uploaded images received an archive containing a malicious executable instead of a video. The executable launched a multi-stage attack that installed Noodlophile, which harvests browser credentials, cookies and cryptocurrency wallet information. Morphisec reported the campaign.

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Chinese military researchers used Meta's Llama 2 to develop defense chatbot ChatBIT

Chinese military researchers, including two affiliated with the People's Liberation Army, reportedly used Meta's Llama 2 AI model to develop a defense chatbot called ChatBIT. According to Reuters, the chatbot is designed to gather and process intelligence and offer information for operational decision-making. Meta stated that the use was unauthorized and contrary to its acceptable use policy.

Company involved

People's Liberation Army (PLA)

AI system involved

ChatBIT

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Meta sues Voyager Labs for scraping Facebook and Instagram user data

Meta filed a legal action against Voyager Labs, alleging that the company used fake accounts and proprietary software to scrape user data from Facebook and Instagram. The scraping collected profile information, posts, friends lists, photos and comments. Meta disabled Voyager's accounts and sought a permanent injunction. The case was settled in December 2024, with Voyager agreeing to a permanent injunction and monetary payment.

Company involved

Voyager Labs

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