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'Act now': Five Eyes warns that AI models specialized for cyber attacks are only months away

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  • Five Eyes alliance warned frontier GenAI models will enable advanced cyberattacks against businesses and governments within months
  • Statement stressed cyber risk is now a leadership and business continuity issue, requiring whole‑of‑society response
  • Comes amid concerns over Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and other models already showing offensive potential despite guardrails

In just a few months, high-end Generative Artificial Intelligence models (GenAI) will be capable of running cyberattacks on big businesses and government organizations, Five Eyes is warning.

The Five Eyes is an intelligence-sharing alliance between the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Formed after the Second World War, it allows the five countries to closely cooperate on intelligence and matters of national security.

Earlier this week, Five Eyes issued a new warning, saying that AI will help improve cyber defense over time, but will also accelerate the speed, scale, and sophistication, of threats: “Frontier AI models are...

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