{"id":1037208,"date":"2026-09-21T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037208"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:34:13","slug":"google-gemini-accessed-three-companies-in-first-known-ai-hacking-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/google-gemini-accessed-three-companies-in-first-known-ai-hacking-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Gemini accessed three companies in first known AI hacking incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company&#8217;s AI systems autonomously committing such an act. <\/p>\n<p>The hacks occurred in May during a cybersecurity test conducted by Irregular, an independent company that conducts cybersecurity evaluations. <\/p>\n<p>During a standard testing evaluation, Gemini found public information online and guessed credentials to access three websites it thought were within the scope of its test, Heather Adkins, Google&#8217;s vice president of security engineering, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company&#8217;s AI systems autonomously committing such an act. The hacks occurred in May during a cybersecurity test conducted by Irregular, an independent company that conducts cybersecurity evaluations. During a standard testing evaluation, Gemini found public information online and guessed credentials to access three websites it thought were within the scope of its test, Heather Adkins, Google&#8217;s vice president of security engineering, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037208","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037230,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037208\/revisions\/1037230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}