AI Cyber Threat: Google’s Gemini Hacks 3 Firms During Security Test

Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini, has accessed the internet and breached the systems of three companies during a cybersecurity test, in what has been described as the first known case of Google’s AI autonomously carrying out such actions.
The incidents occurred in May during a cybersecurity evaluation conducted by Irregular, an independent company that tests the capabilities and safety of AI systems.
According to Reuters, citing the Wall Street Journal, Gemini was given access to a test environment but later found publicly available information online and used it to access systems belonging to three real companies that it apparently believed were within the scope of...