Google warns of first known case of AI-assisted hacking
The post Google warns of first known case of AI-assisted hacking appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. For years, the cybersecurity industry has warned that AI would eventually be weaponized by hackers. That theoretical future just became the present. Google’s threat intelligence team has identified what it describes as likely the first documented case of cybercriminals using a large language model to discover and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in the wild. The target: a flaw in a widely used open-source system administration tool that allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication. What happened The vulnerability was found in a Python script within a popular open-source login platform. Attackers identified a flaw that, when exploited, could circumvent the 2FA protections that millions of users and organizations rely on as a critical second layer of security. Here’s what makes this case different from every previous cyberattack. The exploit code itself appears to have been gene