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SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities

AI-Enabled Malware and Hacking Identified as Operational Threat

4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

AI is actively lowering the barrier for cybercriminals, enabling more sophisticated malware and hacking operations at scale. Boards must treat AI-augmented cyber threats as a material risk requiring urgent review of security controls and incident response frameworks.

Domain

Security & Privacy

Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations (Hogenhout2021) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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