Google Says Hacker Used Mythos-Like AI for Software Tool Exploit

Security researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google said they believe a cybercrime group used artificial intelligence to create a hacking tool that can bypass defenses in a widely-used tool to administer computer systems.

The scheme, which was foiled when Google alerted the tool developer, would mark the first time that Google’s Threat Intelligence Group caught a hacker using an AI-generated “zero-day” in such a way, according to a report published Monday. Zero-day vulnerabilities are flaws unknown to the developer, leaving defenders no time to patch before they can be exploited.