SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities
General-Purpose AI Models Amplify Cyberattack Scale and Sophistication
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
General-purpose AI models enable malicious actors to automate vulnerability scanning, scale exploit deployment, and combine social engineering with cyberattacks. Boards face materially elevated cyber risk exposure requiring urgent review of AI threat modelling and security governance frameworks.
Domain
Security & Privacy
Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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