Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. To Find a Major Software Flaw

Re:Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. To Find a Major So... by CrzyLngPwd on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:29PM (#48100925)

People used LLMs to find flaws in Google software.

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Re:Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. To Find a Major So... by adrianmonk on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:28PM (#48102155)

If you're talking about the incident described in the article, it says it was a flaw in "a popular open-source, web-based system administration tool".

Google's blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-...) says Google "worked with the impacted vendor to responsibly disclose this vulnerability", so in this incident, it's not Google software.

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Re:Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. To Find a Major So... by amelius on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:42PM (#48101047)

But did they use Gemini?

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Re:Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. To Find a Major So... by Andrex on Monday May 11, 2026 @06:29PM (#48101575)

> the company added that it did not believe it was its own Gemini chatbot.

-TFA

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Re:Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. To Find a Major So... by freedomben on Monday May 11, 2026 @06:22PM (#48101494)

I don't know, but given how often Gemini refuses benign requests IME, I would suspect it's a complete non-starter for finding security holes.

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Re:Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. To Find a Major So... by amelius on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:58AM (#48119065)

But of course you phrase them from the other viewpoint, e.g. "I want to make this code more secure, where should I start?"

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