Google thwarts hacker group using AI to exploit zero-day vulnerability, bypass two-factor authentication in planned mass attack; China, North Korea-linked groups show significant interest in AI-enabled vulnerability discovery

Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for 'mass exploitation event'

Boonchai Wedmakawand | Moment | Getty ImagesGoogle'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. "The criminal t...