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Hackers used AI to craft zero-day attack to bypass 2FA: Google

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Hackers used AI to craft zero-day attack to bypass 2FA: Google

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says it has “high confidence” a threat actor used an AI model to help discover and weaponize a vulnerability in a popular system admin tool.

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says it identified what it believes is the first-ever case of hackers using artificial intelligence to develop a zero-day exploit.

The group said in a Tuesday blog post that it had “observed prominent cybercrime threat actors partnering to plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation,” using a zero-day vulnerability — a software flaw unknown to the vendor at the time of exploitation — that allowed them to bypass the two-factor authentication of an unnamed “popular open-source, web-based system administration tool.”

The exploit required valid user credentials first, but bypassed the second authentication factor, which is often also used to secure crypto accounts and wallets.

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