The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"
—Pope Leo XIV
“Disappointed with OpenAI that that it took the company way too long to inform the Government,” says Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as he terms the OpenAI agent hacking government website as “unacceptable situation”.
Google’s VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins told AI FrontPage that Gemini accessed three real companies during a cybersecurity test after finding public information and guessing credentials, but stopped in all three cases.
Frontier AI models are doubling their offensive cyber performance every six months while costs crash. Banks, telecoms, energy firms and critical infrastructure are the next high-value targets, warns Irregular CEO Dan Lahav, who is calling for urgent Differential Defensive Cyber Acceleration.
According to Genians’ latest report, the North Korea-linked Kimsuky group is expanding its cyber toolkit with local LLMs, AI-powered transcription and AI-generated phishing lures.
The IMF warned that AI is making cyberattacks faster and cheaper, threatening banks, payment networks and shared financial infrastructure worldwide. It called for stronger resilience standards and urgent coordination between governments and private institutions.
