The Five Eyes intelligence alliance, including US, UK, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand officials, warned on Monday that frontier AI models are rapidly transforming offensive cyber capabilities. These models are expected to exceed current industry expectations, with the threat timeline measured in months, not years. Officials stressed urgent action is needed, as cutting-edge AI is poised to supercharge hacking capabilities.
The alliance urged defenders to leverage AI to strengthen defenses, such as identifying weaknesses sooner and responding more quickly to incidents, while also reiterating core cybersecurity advice like swift software patching. Concerns specifically target models like Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber, which facilitate complex, potentially devastating hacks. Recently, Anthropic disabled a Mythos version following a US government order over national security concerns, and the US cyber-defense agency, CISA, reduced vulnerability remediation deadlines for government officials to three days, citing AI threats.
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