Research reveals 2,863 public Google API keys can access Gemini endpoints, enabling data exposure and massive billing abuse.

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI ...

API key exploitation is more than hypothetical. In a different context, a student who reportedly exposed a GCP API key on GitHub last June was left nursing a $55,444 bill (later waived by Google) ...

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged to become an integral part of the software stack. They are available through APIs from providers like Cohere, Google Cloud, and OpenAI or as open-source ...