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Amber Bouman

Google Gemini flaw exploited to turn AI-powered email summaries into the perfect phishing tool — everything you need to know

A person typing on a computer while hackers use phishing to steal a file from their computer.

A flaw in Google Gemini for Workspace can be exploited by hackers to insert malicious instructions that could misdirect the AI tool and cause it to direct users to phishing sites.

As reported by Bleeping Computer, this vulnerability works by creating email summaries that look entirely normal, but include malicious instructions or warnings that are hidden and automatically obeyed by Gemini when it generates a message summary.

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