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This Saturday morning, new warnings emerge about AI's double-edged sword, with both enhanced threats and defenses dominating the cybersecurity landscape. Both TechRadar and Let's Data Science confirm a startling trend: AI is creating new attack vectors. TechRadar reports that 90% of messaging apps now integrate AI, potentially undermining privacy even with end-to-end encryption. Meanwhile, Let's Data Science reveals attackers used Meta's AI support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts, including high-profile pages like Barack Obama's. This highlights a new risk where AI agents themselves become targets. The Hacker News adds to this concern, stating an AI agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, a critical media library, for just $1,000. This surge in AI-driven bug discovery means developers face an unprecedented volume of flaws. The Diplomatic Insight notes that SCO security chiefs are meeting in Bishkek specifically to address this rise in AI-driven crime. Benzinga reports a former crypto security chief warning that all of decentralized finance is now "unsafe" due to AI's superhuman ability to find smart contract vulnerabilities. But there's also a push for stronger AI-powered defenses. The White House, according to Startup Fortune, is making AI core to national security, creating a race for trusted AI tech. Agencies now prioritize cyber defense and want early access to frontier models. Security Affairs reveals Anthropic engineers are even embedded at the NSA, using their "Mythos" cyber model for offensive operations, capable of finding zero-day exploits. CyberSecurityNews announces HexStrike AI v6.0, an advanced framework combining 127 tools with an evasion engine, allowing AI agents to automate penetration testing in minutes. Akamai and NVIDIA, Pulse 2.0 reports, are integrating Zero Trust security directly into AI factory infrastructure, aiming to protect AI workloads without sacrificing performance. And OpenAI, LinkedIn confirms, has launched "Lockdown Mode" to reduce the risk of prompt injection attacks, a "frontier" problem for the entire AI industry. This means your digital interactions, from messaging to banking, are at greater risk from sophisticated AI attacks, even as new AI-powered security measures emerge to protect your data and privacy.