Month: May 2026

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 cyber crime threat actors partnering to plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation,” using a zero-day vulnerability allowing 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…