AI is Not a Game Changer for Threat Actors Yet, Says Google

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GITG) recently published a report analysing various attempts to misuse Google’s AI assistant Gemini.  The report explored threats posed by individual and state-sponsored attackers. These attackers sought to exploit Gemini in two ways: to accelerate their malicious campaigns or instruct a model or AI agent to take a malicious action. The majority of the activity falls under the first category.  State-sponsored cyber attacks were associated with threat actors from countries like China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia. These actors used Gemini for reconnaissance, vulnerability research, phishing campaigns, and defence-related intelligence. North Korean threat actors used AI to place covert IT workers in Western firms by creating fake CVs.