AI Is Giving Lesser-Resourced Attackers Nation-State-Level Reach, Google Warns
Criminal and state-sponsored adversaries are increasingly using AI to automate and scale their attacks, according to GTIG. The post AI Is Giving Lesser-Resourced Attackers Nation-State-Level Reach, Google Warns appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Adversaries, both criminal and state-sponsored, are increasingly using AI to automate and scale their attacks, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).
What started as relatively simple adversarial prompt injection into enterprise AI systems has become a full-blown war, with aggressors developing and using their own AI systems, and enterprises using additional AI defenses that provide an expanded attack surface. It is an ongoing and expanding loop that is unlikely to abate.
Google, straddling both sides of this war (partly a cause by developing Gemini, and partly a defense in its efforts to detect and shut down attackers), has chronicled the evolution through 2026.
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