Google found the first AI-generated zero-day exploit. It stopped the attack before it started.

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Google identified the first zero-day exploit it believes was developed with AI and thwarted a planned mass exploitation event. The GTIG report documents state-sponsored actors from China, North Korea, and Russia using AI for vulnerability research, autonomous malware using Google’s Gemini API, and supply chain attacks targeting the AI software ecosystem.

Google has identified the first zero-day exploit it believes was developed with artificial intelligence. The criminal threat actor that built it planned to use it in a mass exploitation event. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group discovered the vulnerability before it was deployed, worked with the affected vendor to patch it, and disrupted the operation. The exploit, a Python script that bypasses two-factor authentication on a popular open-source system administration tool, contained hallucinated CVSS scores, educational docstrings, and the structured textbook formatting characteristic of large language model output. Google has high confidence that an AI model was used to find...

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