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SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities

Generative AI Enables Scaled Malware, Phishing and Model Poisoning Attacks

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

Executive Summary

Generative AI lowers the barrier for malicious actors to draft malware, conduct phishing at scale, and poison training datasets with corrupted data. Boards face materially expanded cyber liability and disclosure obligations as novel attack vectors emerge faster than existing controls can address them.

Domain

Security & Privacy

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Generating Harms - Generative AI's impact and paths forwards (EPIC2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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