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Thousands of Public Google Cloud API Keys Exposed with Gemini Access

Thousands of Public Google Cloud API Keys Exposed with Gemini Access

Thousands of Public Google Cloud API Keys Exposed with Gemini Access — New research has found that Google Cloud API keys, typically designated as project identifiers for billing purposes, could be abused to authenticate to sensitive Gemini endpoints and access private data. The problem occurs when users enable the Gemini API on a Google Cloud project (i.e., Generative Language API), causing the existing API keys in that project, including those accessible via the website JavaScript code, to gain surreptitious access to Gemini endpoints without any warning or notice. With a valid key, an attacker can access uploaded files, cached data, and even rack up LLM usage charges, Truffle Security said. The issue has since been plugged by Google. Read more

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