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Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for 'mass exploitation event'
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- Google's Threat Intelligence Group said in a report on Monday that it thwarted an effort by hackers to use artificial intelligence models to "plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation."
- "The criminal threat actor planned to use it in a mass exploitation event but our proactive counter discovery may have prevented its use," Google wrote in the post, without disclosing the name of the hacker group.
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Google's Threat Intelligence Group said in a report on Monday that it thwarted an effort by hackers to use artificial intelligence models to "plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation."
The group, known by the acronym GTIG, said it has "high confidence" that it recorded hackers using an AI model to find and exploit a zero-day vulnerability, or software flaw unknown to developers, creating a way to bypass two-factor authentication.
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