All news with #gemini tag

🔒 Cybersecurity researchers disclosed three now-patched vulnerabilities in Google's Gemini suite that could have exposed user data and enabled search- and prompt-injection attacks. The flaws, labeled the Gemini Trifecta, impacted Gemini Cloud Assist, the Search Personalization model, and the Browsing Tool. Following responsible disclosure, Google stopped rendering hyperlinks in log summaries and implemented additional hardening. Tenable warned these issues could have allowed covert exfiltration of saved user information and location data.

⚠️Tenable has revealed three vulnerabilities in Google's Gemini platform, collectively dubbed the "Gemini Trifecta," that enable indirect prompt injection and data exfiltration through integrations. The issues allow attackers to poison GCP logs consumed by Gemini Cloud Assist, inject malicious entries into Chrome search history to manipulate the Search Personalization Model, and coerce the Browsing Tool into fetching attacker-controlled URLs that leak sensitive query data. Google has patched the flaws, and Tenable urges security teams to treat AI integrations as active threat surfaces and implement input sanitization, output validation, monitoring, and regular penetration testing.

🛡️ This post summarizes a hands-on workshop from LABScon that demonstrated automating large-scale threat hunting by combining the VirusTotal API with LLMs inside interactive Google Colab notebooks. The team recommends vt-py for robust programmatic access and provides a pre-built "meta Colab" that supplies Gemini with documentation and working code snippets so it can generate executable Python queries. Practical demos include LNK and CRX analyses, flattened dataframes, Sankey and choropleth visualizations, and stepwise relationship retrieval to accelerate investigations.

🔒 At DEF CON 33, Google and Airbus hosted the GenSec Capture the Flag (CTF) to promote human–AI collaboration and accelerate adoption of AI in cybersecurity workflows. Nearly 500 participants completed introductory challenges, 23% used AI for security for the first time, and 85% found the event useful for learning practical AI applications. The CTF also featured Sec-Gemini as an optional assistant in the UI; 77% of respondents rated it very or extremely helpful, and organizers are incorporating feedback into future iterations.

🔧 Google released open-source Gemini CLI extensions that integrate Gemini with Google Data Cloud services, enabling terminal-based access to BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and AlloyDB. Developers install the CLI (recommended v0.6.0), add extensions, and configure IAM and environment variables to connect to projects. Extensions support provisioning databases and users, natural-language querying, AI forecasting, and conversational analytics, though some require enabling additional APIs.

🚀 Indiana Department of Transportation built a week-long pilot on Google Cloud to meet a 30-day executive order, using a Retrieval-Augmented Generation workflow that combined rapid ETL, Vertex AI Search indexing, and Gemini. The system scraped and parsed decades of internal policies and manuals, produced draft reports across nine divisions with 98% fidelity, and saved an estimated 360 hours of manual effort, enabling INDOT to submit on time.

🤖 DB Lumina is Deutsche Bank Research’s AI-powered assistant, built on Google Cloud and integrating multimodal Gemini models, RAG retrieval, and vector search. It provides a conversational chat interface, reusable prompt templates, and document-grounded answers with inline citations and enterprise guardrails for compliance. Early deployment to roughly 5,000 analysts has yielded measurable time savings, deeper analysis, and improved editorial accuracy.

🚀 Google Cloud announced a new suite of AI training courses for intermediate and advanced learners across technical and non-technical roles. The curriculum covers designing and managing AI infrastructure using GCE and GKE, fine-tuning models like Gemini, serverless inference with Cloud Run, and securing generative AI deployments. Hands-on labs teach building AI agents that securely connect to enterprise databases and rapid prototyping in Google AI Studio. Courses are available on Google Cloud Skills Boost to help learners future-proof their AI skills.

🤖 Gemini in Chrome brings AI assistance directly into the browser to help employees summarize reports, extract video insights, recall and navigate tabs, and take actions via integrations with Google Calendar, Docs, and Drive. Rolling out in the U.S. on Mac and Windows with Android availability and iOS coming soon, these features are configurable through Chrome Enterprise Core policies so IT retains control. AI Mode in the omnibox and enhanced Safe Browsing add context-aware responses and proactive protection against AI-driven scams.

🤖 Seattle Children’s partnered with Google Cloud to build Pathway Assistant, a multimodal AI chatbot that turns thousands of pediatric clinical pathway PDFs into conversational, searchable guidance. Using Vertex AI and Gemini, the assistant extracts JSON metadata, parses diagrams and flowcharts, and returns cited answers in seconds. The tool logs clinician feedback to BigQuery and stores source documents in Cloud Storage, enabling continuous improvement of documentation and metadata.

🔒 Security leaders are balancing safe AI adoption with operational gains and focusing on five practical use cases where AI can improve security outcomes. Organizations are connecting LLMs to internal telemetry via standards like MCP, using agents and models such as Claude, Gemini and GPT-4o to automate threat hunting, translate technical metrics for executives, assess vendor and internal risk, and streamline Tier‑1 SOC work. Early deployments report time savings, clearer executive reporting and reduced analyst fatigue, but require robust guardrails, validation and feedback loops to ensure accuracy and trust.

🛒 Google Cloud announced general availability of the Conversational Commerce agent on Vertex AI, a shopping-focused conversational assistant designed to guide customers from intent to purchase. The agent uses Gemini to interpret complex queries, supports context retention across sessions and devices, and offers administrative controls to boost, bury, or restrict products. Albertsons Cos. reports increased basket size in early use. Onboarding is presented as quick with minimal development effort via the Vertex AI console.

🔒 Google Cloud and its partners announced a range of partner-built AI security solutions now available in the Google Cloud Marketplace. These integrations embed Gemini and Vertex AI into partner products — including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and others — to protect models, data, applications, and agents. The collaborations emphasize automated detection, incident response, DLP, identity protection, and agent monitoring to reduce mean time to detect and respond, helping customers adopt AI securely.

🛡️ The Agentic SOC Workshop is a complimentary, half-day event series from Google Cloud designed to help security professionals apply agentic AI and cloud-native threat intelligence to real-world operations. Attendees will participate in hands-on labs, a Capture the Flag challenge, and peer networking to learn how Gemini and Google Cloud tools can reduce alert fatigue and automate routine workflows. Sessions start in Los Angeles on Sept. 17 and Chicago on Sept. 19, with additional dates in October.

🎖️ Google Public Sector is opening registration for a no-cost, three-week virtual program, Google Launchpad for Veterans, offering foundational generative AI training and a path to the Gen AI Leader certification. The Gen AI Leader training includes a two-day kickoff on November 13–14, optional exam prep sessions, and a complimentary exam voucher. Participants will learn core LLM concepts, how to navigate the AI ecosystem, and practical business applications using Gemini and NotebookLM to drive organizational transformation.

🛠️ In Episode #6 of the Agent Factory podcast, Keith Ballinger discusses how AI agents and the Gemini CLI are reshaping software development and elevating developers into orchestration and context engineering roles. He demonstrates 'vibe coding' with live demos that produced a command-line markdown viewer in under 15 minutes and highlights open-source projects Terminus and Aether as practical examples. The episode also addresses infrastructure for AI workloads, multi-cloud and edge orchestration, and the growing need for human review in regulated industries.

🔐 New research demonstrates practical, dangerous promptware attacks that exploit common interactions—calendar invites, emails, and shared documents—to manipulate LLM-powered assistants. The paper Invitation Is All You Need! evaluates 14 attack scenarios against Gemini-powered assistants and introduces a TARA framework to quantify risk. The authors reported 73% of identified threats as High-Critical and disclosed findings to Google, which deployed mitigations. Attacks include context and memory poisoning, tool misuse, automatic agent/app invocation, and on-device lateral movement affecting smart-home and device control.

🧠 In episode 66 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley walk listeners through a rapid-fire roundup of recent AI developments, from a ChatGPT prompt that produced an inaccurate anatomy diagram to a controversial Stanford sushi hackathon. They cover a Google Gemini bug that generated self-deprecating responses, criticisms that gave DeepSeek poor marks on existential-risk mitigation, and a debunked pregnancy-robot story. The episode also celebrates a genuine scientific advance: a team of AI agents that designed novel COVID-19 nanobodies, and considers how unusual collaborations and growing safety work could change the broader AI risk landscape.