{"id":156550,"date":"2026-09-08T10:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/google-warns-that-cybercriminals-are-using-ai-for-faster-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:47:18","slug":"google-warns-that-cybercriminals-are-using-ai-for-faster-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/google-warns-that-cybercriminals-are-using-ai-for-faster-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Google warns that cybercriminals are using AI for faster attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Google warns about the evolution of cybercrime through autonomous artificial intelligence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Artificial intelligence has ceased to be an experimental tool and has become the primary weapon for cyber-espionage groups and digital criminals globally. A recent report from Google&#8217;s Threat Intelligence Group has raised alarms by revealing that attackers are already using autonomous systems capable of planning, automating, and executing attacks without direct human intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the tech company&#8217;s findings, this new modality allows criminals to optimize their operations at an unprecedented speed, even managing to steal critical intellectual property related to the development of AI models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI as a force multiplier in attacks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The study, titled AI Threat Tracker, details how artificial intelligence acts as a &#8220;force multiplier&#8221; that reduces the execution time of complex attacks to just a few hours. Among the most concerning tactics identified by analysts are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Theft automation:<\/strong> Criminal groups from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are using AI to automate credential harvesting and the creation of malicious code.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supply chain manipulation:<\/strong> Attackers are intervening in programming assistants and open-source repositories to introduce vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multi-agent architectures:<\/strong> Massive campaigns have been detected that compromise thousands of credentials in just six hours using stolen infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>At this point, we can assume that all threat actors are using AI in one way or another and that their operations have benefited from it. The challenge will be especially complex as it executes autonomously, creating a faster adversary at a larger scale.<\/p>\n<cite>John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Google&#8217;s Threat Intelligence Group.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A challenge that exceeds current response capacity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The report underscores that these risks are not limited exclusively to the technology sector, but directly impact industries such as healthcare, media, and entertainment in North America and Europe. The ability of these autonomous agents to identify vulnerabilities and develop attacks in real time challenges conventional defense strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Documented cases, such as groups attempting to use language models to build automated penetration testing frameworks or the use of malware specifically designed to deceive AI assistants, demonstrate that the threat is in a constant phase of expansion. Given this landscape, experts warn that the race between attackers and cybersecurity teams has become a fight against time, where the speed of response is the determining factor to avoid greater damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google warns about the evolution of cybercrime through autonomous artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence has ceased to be an experimental tool and has become the primary weapon for cyber-espionage groups and digital criminals globally. A recent report from Google&#8217;s Threat Intelligence Group has raised alarms by revealing that attackers are already using autonomous systems capable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[7588,15249,14453,13040],"class_list":{"0":"post-156550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-cybercrime","10":"tag-cybersecurity","11":"tag-google"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}