AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says
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According to Google's threat intelligence group, AI-powered hacking (using AI models to help create and scale cyberattacks) has rapidly grown from a minor issue to a large, organized threat in just three months. Criminal groups and state-sponsored actors are now using commercial AI models to write code and find vulnerabilities (weaknesses in software that can be exploited) more effectively and at a much larger scale.
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-powered-hacking-industrial-scale-threat-three-months-google
First tracked: May 12, 2026 at 08:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%