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Meta-owned messaging app offering end-to-end encrypted texting, voice/video calls, and business tools to billions of users worldwide.
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Reported losses to criminals who hijack UK email and social media accounts reached 6.3 million pounds in 2025-26, up from 1.2 million, police data shows. The base is small, but fraud that borrows a person's identity gives employers a reason to review how staff log in.
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Meta launched its personal agent Muse on Tuesday for US adults, and in the company's own description the only party who approves a connector is the person holding the account. Tailscale and Plaid are on the list.
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WhatsApp extended its parent-managed controls to teen accounts, letting parents move Meta AI from its 13+ default to a stricter Limited Content mode. The controls are optional, so the tighter limits apply only in families that turn them on.
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Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker cannot see whom its customers target, and that halting updates leaves their systems ineffective in about 12 hours. Its promise to drop abusive customers therefore waits on outsiders finding the abuse first.
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CISA added Apple's CoreGraphics zero-day CVE-2026-86950 to its KEV catalog, giving federal agencies until October 2, 2026 to patch. Only federal civilian agencies are bound by that date. Every other Apple fleet sets its own deadline for a bug Apple links to targeted attacks.
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Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker can't see who customers target, and withheld updates leave a customer's system ineffective in about 12 hours. Its zero-tolerance misuse policy depends on outside researchers to find abuse before that slow cutoff comes into play.
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Paragon, maker of the Graphite spyware, will go public through a Nasdaq SPAC merger at a $1.25 billion pre-money enterprise value. The price rests on $267 million in revenue, up 29%, earned jointly with REDLattice, a contractor to US defense and government agencies.
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OX Security found 101 npm forks of the Baileys WhatsApp library, downloaded 490,000 times, that add developers' accounts to groups without consent. About a quarter of those downloads came in the last 30 days, so the campaign is still reaching new installs.
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Meta unveiled Ray-Ban Audio, its first smart glasses without a camera, at Connect alongside a third generation of its camera Ray-Bans. It is the one Connect privacy change a venue's device rule can act on, since Private Processing has not reached the glasses yet.
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Meta will put voice-driven scanned avatars into WhatsApp calls from its $799 Ray-Ban Display glasses this fall, ahead of its spring 2027 VR Glasses. The first people to see them will be on ordinary phones, looking at a face where a glasses call used to show the wearer's view.
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Meta's on-device model flags likely scams from non-contacts in a limited beta. It carries no enforcement, no admin visibility, and no view of the vector that works best.
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Google's threat intelligence team ties three suspected Russian clusters to abuse of Google OAuth, app passwords and device linking. MFA completes normally, so consent telemetry is the control.
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The two-step secret becomes a full alphanumeric password, and an account can now hold one passkey per platform. Both remain opt-in settings inside the app.
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Graz University researchers showed unprivileged apps can infer keystroke timing and browsing from file-change notifications on Linux, Android and Windows. The fixes shipped so far are partial, and the keystroke and KDE clickjacking flaws are still present.
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Muse can open a browser and click buy, but the credential at checkout is Link built by Stripe, and the only money Meta has put a price on is a $20 and $100 monthly subscription rather than a cut of what the agent spends.
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The agent launched in the US on Tuesday with subscriptions at $20 and $100 a month, and employees testing it during launch week were still logging guardrail bypasses, logouts the system forced on its own, and monitoring that occasionally shut off without explanation.
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Developers who parse Meta's epoch-seconds webhook timestamp with new Date() get NaN and pay template rates on every WhatsApp reply, according to a dev.to post. The opposite slip, mixing milliseconds with seconds, holds the window open so free-form replies bounce silently.
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Meta One's Indian ladder runs from Rs 79 a month for WhatsApp extras to Rs 20,990 for the top business tier. The compute-heavy AI bundles in the middle are the rungs priced closest to their US equivalents, and basic Meta AI stays free.
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Meta One Core costs $7.99 a month and contains three single-app plans that add up to $10.97, so the higher ceilings on Restyle, voice effects and Muse generation are the part of the bundle Meta is actually selling.
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Core includes the Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp plans that cost $10.97 bought on their own, and adds higher image and video limits on top. The step up to Premium costs $12 a month and buys allowance.
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