{"id":243636,"date":"2026-05-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/cybercriminals-are-making-powerful-hacking-tools-with-ai-google-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:30:12","slug":"cybercriminals-are-making-powerful-hacking-tools-with-ai-google-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/cybercriminals-are-making-powerful-hacking-tools-with-ai-google-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals Are Making Powerful Hacking Tools With AI, Google Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cybercriminals Are Making Powerful Hacking Tools With AI, Google Warns<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomasbrewster\/2026\/05\/11\/cybercriminals-make-powerful-zero-day-hack-with-ai-google-warns\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-11 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Cybercriminals are turning AI malicious, while nation states like China and North Korea are using artificial intelligence for all kinds of digital attacks, Google warns.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Over the last year, cybercriminals have been pushing AI to see how far it will go to help them break into company networks. On Monday, Google issued a warning: the tech has helped criminals successfully develop a powerful hacking tool known as a zero-day exploit for the first time. <\/p>\n

Zero-day exploits are small programs that target previously-unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities to install malware and access data on a target computer or network. That makes them a rare and potent commodity among hackers. Google security researchers found evidence hackers had developed such an exploit to target an unnamed open-source, web-based IT admin tool. A \u201cmass vulnerability exploitation operation\u201d was in the works, the tech giant said. It was able to stop the attack from happening by alerting the vendor of the IT tool.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome things that used to require months and years of experience … can be done almost instantaneously.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Eyal Sela, director of threat intelligence at Gambit Security<\/p>\n

Google said there were a number of signs that artificial intelligence helped write the malicious code (though it couldn\u2019t tell which AI system was used). The code was structured in a way that was \u201chighly characteristic\u201d of AI, the report said, including a \u201ctextbook\u201d use of the Python language and \u201cdetailed help menus\u201d not typically seen in human-written programming. It also contained what appeared to be an AI hallucination, referencing a vulnerability that didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Google said it\u2019d also discovered hackers, including those working for Chinese and North Korean intelligence, using its Gemini AI chatbot to help research potential cyberattack targets. In one case, a Chinese-linked cybercrime group dubbed UNC2814 tricked Gemini by asking it to act like a network security expert. Then Gemini agreed to…<\/p>\n

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