Gemini reportedly accessed three real companies' systems during a May security test
A post sharing a Wall Street Journal report says Gemini's test environment had internet access it was not supposed to have. The account says Google defended the model because it stopped once it recognized real targets.
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A post sharing a Wall Street Journal report says Gemini accessed three real companies during a May capture-the-flag cybersecurity exercise on Irregular's infrastructure. Its assignment was to retrieve data from a fictional company that shared a name with a real one.
The account describes one run guessing passwords into a live service and two others using credentials found in a public repository. The test environment had internet access it was never supposed to have.
According to the account, Irregular told Google in late July. Google said Gemini stopped each time it recognized a real target, and the company notified the three entities and worked with Irregular on process changes.
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