Signal warns that hackers have been impersonating a non-existent 'Signal Support Bot' to trick targets into handing over login authentication codes.

A group of cyber criminals recently used off-the-shelf AI chatbots to steal data on nearly 200 million taxpayers. The bots provided the code and ready-to-execute plans to bypass firewalls.

Protecting against individual hackers was difficult enough, but system admins everywhere may have an even harder time with AI-enhanced hacking.

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