AI could fuel severe cyberattacks against governments, businesses within months, Five Eyes spy agencies warn

Artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge cyberattacks against governments, critical infrastructure and major corporations within months, the intelligence agencies of the Five Eyes alliance warned Monday in a rare joint statement urging business leaders to prepare now.The cyber chiefs of the US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand said frontier AI systems are advancing so rapidly that long-standing assumptions about digital threats could soon become obsolete.“Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities,” the spy bosses wrote.“The timeline is not years, it is months.”Recent weeks have seen warnings about the security risks of AI reach a fever pitch.Gen.

Joshua Rudd, the head of the National Security Agency, warned Congress earlier this month that Anthropic’s Mythos “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours,” according to Sen.Mark Warner (D-Va.).

The reporter who quoted the statement later clarified that “it would be a mistake to read that literally.”The Trump administration recently blocked foreign nationals from using a model called Claude Fable 5 from tech giant Anthropic over concerns it is “too powerful.”In response to the White House’s export controls, Anthropic pulled its Mythos and Fable models offline entirely, asserting it was the only way to ensure compliance with federal directives.And last week, The Post reported that the Trump administration would not allow G7 countries to regain access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models after the US imposed a ban earlier this month on national security grounds.This week’s unusually blunt statement from the Five Eyes reflects growing concern among Western intelligence officials that the latest generation of AI systems could dramatically lower barriers for hackers while increasing the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks.While the ...