A cyber-threat report from Google is shedding light on how foreign actors are leveraging generative AI to boost their hacking prowess.

Study published by Google says publicly available generative artificial intelligence tools help hackers speed up their activities but provide little help in creating new kinds of attacks

State-sponsored Chinese hackers breached U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s computer, accessing thousands of unclassified documents in December, anonymous sources told

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s computer was infiltrated and unclassified files were accessed as part of a broader breach of the agency by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The report, which focuses on interactions with Google’s AI assistant Gemini, found that allegedly government-backed threat actors have primarily used Gemini for common tasks such as reconnaissance, vulnerability research and content generation.