‘Honey, what’s the code?’ Two-factor authentication is keeping hackers out — and driving us bonkers.

It has spouses shouting across the house, parents fielding emergency texts, and grandparents wondering why everyone needs six ...

The Steam Workshop is being used to spread malware to thousands of users

Steam is one of the most popular storefronts in PC gaming, but it turns out that the Steam Workshop might presently be ...
newsbytesapp.com

How Google blocked first known AI-driven cyberattack targeting 2FA systems

Google's Threat Intelligence Group has detected the first known case of an AI-driven attack. The hackers attempted to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) systems used by many consumer apps, ...
PCQuest

A password wasn’t enough, 2FA wasn’t enough, then AI entered the attack

A password is stolen. A login page looks normal. Two-factor authentication should stop the attack. Now imagine a flaw in the software underneath lets hackers step around that second lock. That is the ...
HotHardware

Google Detects First AI-Developed Zero-Day Exploit Used by Threat Actors

The May 2026 report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group marks a definitive shift in the cybersecurity landscape. While previous assessments categorized AI-assisted cyberattacks as experimental, ...
TechRepublic

Google Says Hackers Used AI to Build Zero-Day Exploit

Google says hackers used AI to help build a zero-day exploit targeting 2FA, raising concerns about AI-assisted hacking. Google says hackers used AI to help build a zero-day exploit, then stopped it ...
Developer Tech

Google says AI helped build zero-day exploit targeting 2FA bypass

Google Threat Intelligence Group said it identified a cybercrime operation involving a zero-day exploit. The company believes the exploit was likely developed with help from an AI model. It was ...
theregister

Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree

Google says crooks already have AI cooking up zero-days, and claims one nearly escaped into the wild before the company stopped it. In a report shared with The Register ahead of publication on Monday, ...
CSOonline

Google discovers weaponized zero-day exploits created with AI

The 2FA bypass exploit stemmed from a faulty trust assumption, providing evidence of AI reasoning that can discover high-level logic flaws. The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) today released ...
SiliconANGLE

Google says criminals used AI to build a working zero-day exploit for the first time

Criminal hackers have used artificial intelligence to develop a working zero-day exploit, the first confirmed case of its kind, according to a report released today by Google LLC’s Google Threat ...
Bleeping Computer

Google: Hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool

Researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) say that a zero-day exploit targeting a popular open-source web administration tool was likely generated using AI. The exploit could be leveraged ...