Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoHackers could use poisoned WhatsApp and Slack notifications to take over your Google Gemini – and make it work on their behalfwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down11
arrow-up1107arrow-down1external-linkHackers could use poisoned WhatsApp and Slack notifications to take over your Google Gemini – and make it work on their behalfwww.techradar.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 hours agofirst paragraph: They can also be done on Android, using pretty much any communications platform in existence today. this probably relies on the gemini spyware sending all your notifications to google The idea is that the victims will dismiss the foreign-language question as a bug or a glitch and will simply proceed as if nothing’s happened. but sadly this is not a 0 click prompt injection
minus-squarearcine@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoConsidering I don’t use Gemini, which is the lynch pin here, I feel 100% safe.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoyou probably shouldn’t feel that safe, because people you chat with probably do use it
first paragraph:
this probably relies on the gemini spyware sending all your notifications to google
but sadly this is not a 0 click prompt injection
Considering I don’t use Gemini, which is the lynch pin here, I feel 100% safe.
you probably shouldn’t feel that safe, because people you chat with probably do use it