State-backed hackers and cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting Google’s Gemini AI to streamline their attacks from initial reconnaissance to post-compromise operations. According to new research, actors linked to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia used the model for target profiling, phishing lure generation, translation, coding, vulnerability testing, command-and-control development, and data exfiltration.
Some operatives even posed as cybersecurity experts to trick the AI tool into prod