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SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities

AI-Enabled Cyber Offence Lowers Attack Barriers Across Defence Infrastructure

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

Executive Summary

Frontier AI systems automate vulnerability discovery, malware generation, and social engineering, enabling sophisticated attacks at unprecedented scale and speed. Defence organisations face critical infrastructure paralysis and data breaches as adversaries exploit AI to outpace conventional cyber defences.

Domain

Security & Privacy

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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