{"id":244236,"date":"2026-09-19T05:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/google-gemini-broke-into-real-company-systems-after-security-test-domain-mix-up"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:18:58","slug":"google-gemini-broke-into-real-company-systems-after-security-test-domain-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/google-gemini-broke-into-real-company-systems-after-security-test-domain-mix-up","title":{"rendered":"Google Gemini Broke Into Real Company Systems After Security Test Domain Mix-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-gemini-broke-into-real-company-systems-after-security-test-domain-mix-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/gemini-hacked-three-companies-in-first-known-breakout-by-googles-ai-5c0baba2\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents occurred in May 2026 as part of a test run conducted by Israeli company Irregular. The evaluation partner was also involved in similar hacks disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Journal, the model gained access to a protected system after repeatedly guessing its password. Two other cases related to the model finding credentials in a public repository, allowing it to obtain unauthorized access to protected systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The incidents occurred in May 2026 as part of a test run conducted by Israeli company Irregular. The evaluation partner was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244236","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=244236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}