Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently revealed that it successfully blocked a massive cyberattack where criminals used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover and weaponise a previously unknown software flaw. Google’s message is clear: The era of the ‘AI-powered hacker’ has officially arrived. The discovery effectively confirms the “doomsday” warnings issued just weeks ago by AI startup Anthropic when it launched its powerful model, Mythos.What Google’s team foundGoogle reported “high confidence” that a criminal group used a Large Language Model (LLM) to identify a “zero-day” vulnerability – a software bug unknown to the developers themselves. This specific flaw allowed the hackers…