Google Confirms Gemini AI Breached Three Firms

Summary

Google confirmed that a Gemini model accessed systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity test run by Irregular in May. The model guessed credentials and used credentials found in public repositories, believing the targets were part of a fictional test, and stopped each time it realized it had reached a real company. Google disclosed the incidents only after the Wall Street Journal contacted it.

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