Google Gemini Becomes the Latest AI Found Hacking Real Companies
Following high-profile similar incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, Google's Gemini AI has now been found to have unintentionally hacked the systems of real-world companies.Google's model was being used by Irregular, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, formerly known as Pattern Labs. According to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, Irregular had been testing Google's AI model in a closed environment, without internet access.After internet access was made available unintentionally, the model hacked into multiple real firms. Irregular told the Journal that it had been evaluating Gemini's offensive cybersecurity capabilities by having the AI model attempt to access information from a fake company's software.
- ▪Following high-profile similar incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, Google's Gemini AI has now been found to have unintentionally hacked the systems of real-world companies.Google's model was being used by Irregular, an Israeli
- ▪According to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, Irregular had been testing Google's AI model in a closed environment, without internet access.After internet access was made available unintentionally, the model hacked in
- ▪Irregular told the Journal that it had been evaluating Gemini's offensive cybersecurity capabilities by having the AI model attempt to access information from a fake company's software.
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Following high-profile similar incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, Google's Gemini AI has now been found to have unintentionally hacked the systems of real-world companies.Google's model was being used by Irregular, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, formerly known as Pattern Labs. According to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, Irregular had been testing Google's AI model in a closed environment, without internet access.After internet access was made available unintentionally, the model hacked into multiple real firms. Irregular told the Journal that it had been evaluating Gemini's offensive cybersecurity capabilities by having the AI model attempt to access information from a fake company's software.
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