{"id":1007670,"date":"2026-05-12T11:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007670"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:59:36","slug":"google-says-criminal-hackers-used-ai-to-find-software-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/12\/google-says-criminal-hackers-used-ai-to-find-software-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says criminal hackers used AI to find software flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers at Alphabet Inc&#8217;s Google said they believe a cybercrime group used artificial intelligence to create a hacking tool that can bypass defences in a widely used tool to administer computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme, which was foiled when Google alerted the tool developer, would mark the first time that Google&#8217;s Threat Intelligence Group caught a hacker using an AI-generated &#8220;zero-day&#8221; in such a way, according to a report published Monday. Zero-day vulnerabilities are flaws unknown to the developer, leaving defenders no time to patch before they can be exploited. Google said it has &#8220;high confidence&#8221; that AI was used to help discover and weaponise the exploit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers at Alphabet Inc&#8217;s Google said they believe a cybercrime group used artificial intelligence to create a hacking tool that can bypass defences in a widely used tool to administer computer systems. The scheme, which was foiled when Google alerted the tool developer, would mark the first time that Google&#8217;s Threat Intelligence Group caught a hacker using an AI-generated &#8220;zero-day&#8221; in such a way, according to a report published Monday. Zero-day vulnerabilities are flaws unknown to the developer, leaving defenders no time to patch before they can be exploited. Google said it has &#8220;high confidence&#8221; that AI was used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007671,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007670\/revisions\/1007671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}