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SECSEC-002 — Data Poisoning Attack Risks

Frontier AI Enables Advanced Offensive Cyber Weapon Development

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

Executive Summary

Frontier AI systems demonstrate capability to develop and deploy advanced cyber weapons, including evasion tools and persistent network intrusion methods. Boards face material liability if such capabilities are inadequately governed, misappropriated, or proliferated through defence supply chains.

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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