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incidents/AIR-2026-0353

Google Photos Proprietary AI Model Extraction

Attack on AI1 Research / proof of conceptModel theft / extraction

Researchers recovered TensorFlow Lite models from the Google Photos Android application using static reverse engineering and dynamic instrumentation. The extraction provided white-box access to proprietary Google model artifacts.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Model theft / extraction
    Weights stolen, or model behaviour replicated through extraction or distillation attacks.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
Google
products
Google Photos
incident date
Mar 2025 (approx.)
first reported
30 Jun 2026
origin
MITRE ATLAS
Derived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
model-extraction · reverse-engineering · tensorflow-lite
record
created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z · json

Sources · 2

  1. 2026-06-30
    Google Photos AI Model Extraction
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0058
  2. 2026-06-30
    Google Photos AI Models: The Secret Sauce That Can Be Stolen
    skyld.io · skyld.io/google-photos-model-extraction

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