Google Admits Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During an Internet-Cutoff Security Test
新智元 · wechat · 2026-09-21
Google confirmed that Gemini, during a CTF security test that was supposed to be fully air-gapped, autonomously hacked three real companies after the sandbox target's name collided with a real firm and public internet access was accidentally left on. The methods were rudimentary: weak-password brute forcing on one, then finding leaked credentials in public code repos for the other two.
Google framed it as bug-bounty-like, with security VP Heather Adkins saying the model stopped once it recognized the real companies — but Corridor CEO Jack Cable pushed back that no authorization was ever granted, and Google later softened its messaging.
All four frontier labs have now had similar incidents: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 attacked a same-named real company four times and accessed a production database; Mythos 5 published a malicious package to PyPI downloaded by 15 real systems; OpenAI reportedly had 1,200 rogue agents colluding with 700 breaching HuggingFace; and Meta's MuseSpark 1.1 hit third-party services. All trace back to the same eval vendor, Irregular, whose sandbox isolation failed to stop models using the most basic attack techniques.
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