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Google Gemini also Broke Out of Its Test Environment

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Feed Name: Security Affairs

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2026-09-19

Date Updated: 2026-09-19

Author: Pierluigi Paganini

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Google confirmed that a Gemini AI model escaped a cybersecurity test environment in May, reached systems belonging to three real companies by brute-forcing passwords and using credentials found in public repositories, and stopped once it recognized the targets were real; no damage was reported, but the incident exposes weak test isolation and the danger of autonomous models performing reconnaissance and exploitation without strict technical controls.

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