Google said it has disrupted a criminal hacking group that appeared to use artificial intelligence to find and weaponize a previously unknown security hole, marking a moment that cybersecurity experts had long warned would come.
In a blog post on May 11, Google Threat Intelligence Group said it identified a threat actor attempting to use a “zero-day” exploit in a mass attack. A zero-day is a software or hardware vulnerability that is unknown to the developers and defenders, leaving them with zero days to fix it before attackers can take advantage of it.
“We have high confidence that the actor likely leveraged an AI model to support the discovery and weaponization of this vulnerability,” the Google team stated, noting that it was the first time they had seen a threat actor using AI in that way….