Google announces its first-ever discovery of a zero-day exploit made with AI

We can now add cybercrimes to the list of growing concerns associated with artificial intelligence. Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said it discovered, for the first time ever, a threat actor using a zero-day exploit that it believes was developed by AI." Zero-day vulnerabilities are often the most dangerous since they're unknown to the targets, leaving them with zero days to prepare for the attack.

Google said in the report the threat actor was planning to use it in a "mass exploitation event," but its proactive discovery "may have prevented its use." Google added that it doesn't believe its own Gemini models were used, but still has "high confidence" an AI model was part of discovering the vulnerability and weaponizing an exploit.

The GTIG report didn't identify the target but said Google notified the unnamed company, who then patched the issue. Google didn ...