Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Similar to OpenAI’s breach of Hugging Face, the Gemini hacks were less noteworthy for being particularly sophisticated and more for the fact that they were conducted by an AI model. These breaches took place during cybersecurity testing by a company called Irregular. In one case, Gemini simply guessed passwords until it gained access; in the other two, it found credentials in a public repository.
- ▪Similar to OpenAI’s breach of Hugging Face, the Gemini hacks were less noteworthy for being particularly sophisticated and more for the fact that they were conducted by an AI model.
- ▪These breaches took place during cybersecurity testing by a company called Irregular.
- ▪In one case, Gemini simply guessed passwords until it gained access; in the other two, it found credentials in a public repository.
4 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 4 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Gemini AI hacked three other companies during a test — Hacker News (AI / LLM)
- ▪ Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it — The Verge
- ▪ Google Gemini Becomes the Latest AI Found Hacking Real Companies — PCMag
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In Brief Posted: 10:30 AM PDT · September 19, 2026 Image Credits:Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto / Getty Images Anthony Ha Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies Google’s Gemini accessed the protected systems of three other companies in what The Wall Street Journal reports were the AI model’s first autonomous hacks. Similar to OpenAI’s breach of Hugging Face, the Gemini hacks were less noteworthy for being particularly sophisticated and more for the fact that they were conducted by an AI model. These breaches took place during cybersecurity testing by a company called Irregular. In one case, Gemini simply guessed passwords until it gained access; in the other two, it found credentials in a public repository.
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