{"id":35278,"date":"2026-05-11T23:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/35278\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:21:33","slug":"google-says-ai-is-being-abused-at-industrial-scale-for-cyberattacks-and-it-just-thwarted-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/35278\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says AI is being abused at industrial scale for cyberattacks, and it just thwarted one"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, security experts warned that AI<\/a> would eventually give hackers a dangerous new edge. That moment has arrived.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s Threat Intelligence Group has published a report<\/a> confirming that a criminal hacking group used an AI model to discover a zero-day vulnerability and nearly pulled off a mass cyberattack. Google says it caught and stopped the attack before the hackers could deploy the attack at scale.<\/p>\n

What exactly happened, and how serious was it?<\/p>\n

The exploit targeted a popular open-source web-based system administration tool, the kind businesses use to remotely manage servers, employee accounts, and security settings. <\/p>\n

Had it gone undetected, it would have let hackers bypass two-factor authentication, which is often the last line of defense protecting accounts.<\/p>\n

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The attackers planned to deploy it in a mass exploitation event targeting multiple organizations at once. Google alerted the tool\u2019s developer in time for a patch to be issued before any damage was done.<\/p>\n

The company declined to name the hacking group, the specific software targeted, or which AI model was used, but confirmed it was not Google\u2019s own Gemini<\/a>. <\/p>\n

According to Google, groups linked to China and North Korea have also shown significant interest in using AI tools like OpenClaw for vulnerability discovery.<\/p>\n

Is AI becoming cybersecurity\u2019s biggest weak point?<\/p>\n

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The Google attack is alarming, but it\u2019s far from isolated. Georgia Tech researchers recently uncovered VillainNet, a hidden backdoor that embeds itself inside self-driving car\u2019s AI<\/a> and works 99% of the time when triggered.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a Korean research team showed that AI models can be reverse-engineered remotely using a small antenna through walls<\/a>, no system access needed. Recently, a group of Discord users bypassed access controls to reach Anthropic\u2019s restricted Mythos<\/a> model through a third-party vendor environment.<\/p>\n

On the defense side, a growing discipline called AI pentesting is emerging to stress-test how language models behave when exposed to adversarial inputs, but the field is still in its early stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, security experts warned that AI would eventually give hackers a dangerous new edge. That moment has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,5398,25,1221,4322,313,132,1429,22358],"class_list":["post-35278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-ai","tag-ai-cyberattack","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-computing","tag-cyberattack","tag-cybersecurity","tag-google","tag-google-ai","tag-zero-day-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}