Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI
For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), "prominent cyber crime threat actors" were planning to use the vulnerability for a…
By · May 11, 2026 · 1 min read
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For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), “prominent cyber crime threat actors” were planning to use the vulnerability for a “mass exploitation event” that would have allowed them to bypass two-factor authentication on an unnamed “open-source, web-based system administration tool.”
Google’s researchers found hints in the Python script used for the exploit that indicated help from AI, like a “hallucinated CVSS score” and “structured, textbook” formatting consistent with LLM training data. The exploit takes advantage of …
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