Google Confirms Gemini AI Breached Three Firms

Google has confirmed that one of its Gemini models accessed the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity test in May.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the incidents on Friday, describing them as the first known case of Google’s AI systems autonomously hacking other companies.

The test was run by Irregular, the AI testing company that was also involved in incidents disclosed by Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic. Heather Adkins, Google’s VP of security engineering, gave SecurityWeek the following statement about the Gemini incidents:

“Safe development of powerful AI models is critical and we invest deeply in this area. In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test. In all three of these instances, the model stopped.”

Google described the incidents to the WSJ as mistaken identity. Gemini was taking part in a...

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