Hackers Abuse AI to Exploit Vulnerabilities: Google Discloses Zero-Day Attack and 2FA Bypass Cases

As AI technology becomes widespread, security researchers use it to improve product safety, but hackers also start exploiting AI to find vulnerabilities for profit.

Google's Threat Intelligence Group recently released a report disclosing hacker groups used AI tools to find real zero-day vulnerabilities—attacks were stopped in time. They also found AI-generated Python scripts trying to bypass the 2FA authentication of a popular open-source network management tool.

The team notes AI's improved context reasoning enhances vulnerability detection, warning security personnel to increase check efficiency to prevent hackers from using AI to 'speed up' attacks.