{"id":236941,"date":"2026-05-12T02:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/google-hackers-used-ai-to-develop-zero-day-exploit-for-web-admin-tool"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:31:25","slug":"google-hackers-used-ai-to-develop-zero-day-exploit-for-web-admin-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/google-hackers-used-ai-to-develop-zero-day-exploit-for-web-admin-tool","title":{"rendered":"Google: Hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-hackers-used-ai-to-develop-zero-day-exploit-for-web-admin-tool.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The exploit could be leveraged to bypass the two-factor authentication (2FA) protection in a popular open-source, web-based system administration tool that remains unnamed.<\/p>\n<p>Although the attack was foiled before the mass exploitation phase, the incident shows that threat actors are relying more on AI assistance for their vulnerability discovery and exploitation efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 to bypass the two-factor authentication (2FA) protection in a popular open-source, web-based system administration tool that remains unnamed. Although the attack was foiled before the mass [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}