When people hear “Gemini cyberattack,” it’s natural to picture hackers breaking into Google’s AI system. What actually happened is closer to the reverse. Gemini itself carried out the attacks, and it did so by accident, during a test that was never supposed to touch the real internet. Here’s what actually happened, step by step, and why security researchers are paying attention to it. The Setup: A Capture-the-Flag Test Google hired Irregular, a cybersecurity evaluation firm based in Israel, to run Gemini through a standard capability test. These tests, often called…
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