In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May.
The circumstances that enabled the models to hack other companies in some of these cases are similar: Irregular was testing the models in a closed testing environment with fake companies.
Irregular disclosed the hacks to Google at the end of July after discovering OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face.
In one of the security breaches, Irregular was testing Gemini’s cybersecurity capabilities by prompting the AI model to get information from a fake company’s software.
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In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May.
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In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular.
Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI’s breach of AI software company, Hugging Face.
The circumstances that enabled the models to hack other companies in some of these cases are similar: Irregular was testing the models in a closed testing environment with fake companies. The testing environment was not supposed to be internet enabled, but internet access was made available unintentionally, according to the Wall Street Journal. Once connected to the internet, the models hacked into real firms.
Irregular disclosed the hacks to Google at the end of July after discovering OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face. Google confirmed to the Guardian that the hacks occurred, but that the company did not feel it needed public disclosure because the models did not damage the companies.
In one of the security breaches, Irregular was testing Gemini’s cybersecurity capabilities by prompting the AI model to get information from a fake company’s software.
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