Tech Industry Warns of Imminent AI-Powered Cyberattack Surge

OpenAI, Anthropic, Sam Altman, and more than 100 companies are calling for an immediate defensive push, warning that frontier models could amplify attacks against critical infrastructure. Financial regulators also increasingly view AI-enabled cyberattacks as a systemic risk; proposed defenses include continuous testing, defensive AI, model-use tracking, privileged defensive access, and international coordination.