Hackers Pushing Innovation in AI-Enabled Hacking Operations, Google Says
Google said AI helped hackers develop a zero-day exploit and research targets, a sign cybercriminals are using chatbots to speed attacks.
- On Monday, Google reported that hackers successfully used artificial intelligence to develop a zero-day exploit, marking the first time criminals have leveraged AI to weaponize a previously unknown software vulnerability.
- John Hultquist, chief analyst at the Google Threat Intelligence Group, noted that criminal hackers are gaining a "tremendous capability for speed" in weaponizing security bugs, outpacing traditional government spies.
- The malicious code featured a "textbook" use of the Python language and "detailed help menus" not typically seen in human-written programming, confirming the attack's "highly characteristic" AI-written structure.
- While Google disrupted the operation before damage occurred, experts warn that low-skilled attackers can now execute complex cyberattacks that previously required years of experience, democratizing dangerous digital weaponry.
- The Commerce Department announced agreements last week with Google, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI to evaluate powerful models before public release, addressing concerns sparked by Anthropic's "strikingly capable" Mythos model.
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The Google group in charge of discovering and detecting any kind of threat in the network found an attacker who had in his possession a zero-day vulnerability. It was not any vulnerability, as it was developed with AI. Being of the zero-day type, it is more dangerous than any other, since it is unknown to the victim, completely without having time to evade or confront such attack. The company, which was not revealed in his report, could be notif…
Google Spots First AI-Crafted Zero-Day: Hackers Race Ahead in Cyber Arms Contest
Google just caught something new. A prominent cybercrime group turned to artificial intelligence to uncover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability. The flaw sat in a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. It could have let attackers bypass two-factor authentication with nothing more than a username and password. But the company moved first. Its Threat Intelligence Group identified the effort, alerted the vendor and stopped wha…
Google warns hackers now using AI to create new software exploits
In what could be the first confirmed case of hackers using AI to develop a zero-day exploit, Google says threat actors attempted to weaponize a previously unknown vulnerability capable of bypassing two-factor authentication on a popular web-based administration tool. The company said it detected and disrupted the operation before the flaw could be used in a mass exploitation campaign. The findings come from a new report published by Google Threa…
SCIENCE & TECH: ‘This is the tip of the iceberg’: Google experts say they have seen hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day for the first time
GTIG spotted threat actors using AI to identify and exploit a zero-day The vulnerability allowed for two-factor authentication bypass AI is capable of ‘reading’ developer intent, and can ‘see’ how hardcoded exceptions relate to security enforcement Threat actors are leveraging AI at a new scale, marking a shift from small-scale AI-assisted attacks to ‘industrial-scale’ attacks, including using AI to discover and exploit a zero-day – the first re…
'This is the tip of the iceberg': Google experts say they have seen hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day for the first time
Threat actors were spotted by GTIG using AI to find a zero-day vulnerability that could have been used in a mass exploitation attack.
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