Prompt Injection Vulnerability in Google Gemini Voice Assistant Exploited via Malicious Notifications
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Alexander Culafi
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Summary
SafeBreach researchers discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in Google Gemini's voice assistant that allows attackers to hide malicious commands within message notifications. By exploiting Gemini's ability to summarize notifications, attackers could trick the AI into executing harmful prompts, enabling social engineering attacks and other malicious activities. This research builds on previous findings where similar techniques were used with calendar invitations to compromise Gemini.
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· 3 pulledA novel prompt injection technique would have let attackers misuse Google Gemini's voice assistant by taking advantage of its ability to summarize message notifications.
It's an extension of previous findings in which the company similarly used calendar invitations to trick Google Gemini into processing malicious prompts.
Or Yair, SafeBreach security research team lead, said in the research blog post that the
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