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SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities

Generative AI Lowers Barriers to Offensive Cyber Operations

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

Executive Summary

Generative AI reduces the expertise required to conduct hacking, malware deployment, and phishing whilst simultaneously expanding the attack surface for adversaries targeting AI systems themselves. Boards must treat AI infrastructure, training data, and model weights as critical assets requiring dedicated security governance and disclosure consideration.

Domain

Security & Privacy

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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