India’s nodal cybersecurity agency has sounded the alarm on escalating cybersecurity threats driven by recent developments in frontier AI models, urging organisations and MSMEs to step up defenses through stronger threat detection, continuous monitoring, vulnerability disclosures, and rigorous log preservation, among others.
The maturing cyber capabilities of frontier AI systems gives them the ability to autonomously discover security vulnerabilities in widely used software, analyse source code, and plan and chain together multi-stage attacks to compromise enterprise networks end-to-end, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said in a new advisory titled ‘Defending Against Frontier AI Driven Cyber Risks’ issued on Sunday, April 26.
Based on its risk assessment, CERT-In said that AI could potentially enable fast, low-cost, and automated attacks that could aid threat actors in exploiting vulnerabilities, siphoning credentials, and carrying out targeted social engineering attacks against poorly secured systems and users. This may further result in service disruption, data exfiltration, identity compromise, financial fraud, impersonation, etc., according to the agency under the aegis of the IT Ministry.
“These activities can be performed at a speed and scale that previously required teams of skilled human experts,” CERT-In said. “Keeping pace with frontier AI-driven cyber developments is critical for maintaining cyber resilience. Baseline cybersecurity controls remain critical and should be rigorously enforced,” it added.
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