AI AND CYBER: THE DEBATE GETS HOTTER
Two important Agencies, the German BSI and CAMPUS CYBER in France, have recently alerted on the impact of AI on cyber defenses. Referring to the capacity of some AI models as CLAUDE MYTHOS or CHAT GPT 5, the BSI insists on the time lapse between the discovery of a vulnerability and its exploitation which is drastically reduced. This compression of time can leverage hackers. While CAMPUS CYBER is more cautious about MYTHOS, it also alerts on the industrial impact of such AI models. Both actors converge on one point : Europe cannot afford being dependent on AI US models. And call for, either an European cyber shield, or, at least, an Independent European AI-Cyber test bench to evaluate the capabilities of AI models on realistic cases.
This debate is exactly the same as that the ECA triggered during our https://teaming-up-for-europe-cyber.european-champions.org/ event in Lille on APril 1st. It’s time to assess the real impact of AI on cybersecurity, in two fields : cyber efficient practices, and the upheaval in the cybersecurity vendors industry. While AI has the speed for it today, “classical” cyber vendors have the experience and the knowledge of real life situations… not forgetting that the real cost of AI models is not yet reflected in their price so far …
We will continue to nurture this discussion. In a first step, we are happy to support the CYBERALLOY 26 event in Eindhoven in next June (see the specific article). We all want to mention the AI built zero day attack which has been uncovered by Google’s research (see the article)
THE ECA IS PROUD TO SUPPORT THE ALLOYED26 | AI FOR SECURITY: USE THE FORCE
On June 22, 2026, in the high-tech city of Eindhoven, Netherlands. This curated summit will bring together CISOs and senior cybersecurity leaders to address an urgent question: how do you organize resilience when AI evolves faster than organizations and society can adapt? As attackers increasingly leverage AI to identify vulnerabilities, automate attacks, and scale faster than traditional defenses can respond, this event offers a crucial space for practical insights and peer exchange.
AN AI BUILT ZERO DAY ATTACK EXPOSED
(Tribute to DataBreach Today)
A cybercriminal group came close to launching a mass attack earlier this year, armed with a software exploit that an artificial intelligence model had built from scratch, said Google researchers, who added that the AI-generated exploit code is different from other reports about AI-generated vulnerabilities. Google said it worked with the affected vendor to patch the flaw before the attack could be launched, though it did not name the vendor or the tool. The flaw itself was a bypass of two-factor authentication embedded in a Python script targeting a popular open-source web administration tool. The vulnerability was not the kind that conventional security scanners are built to catch, because it did not stem from common implementation errors like memory corruption or improper input handling, but from a high-level semantic logic flaw where the developer hardcoded a trust assumption. Traditional tools scan for crashes and known error patterns. AI models can read what the developer intended the code to do and identify contradictions between that intent and how the code actually behaves.
MISTRAL AI HACKED
MISTRAL AI the French AI system provider, has suffered a cyber attack resulting in the leak of some 5 Gigabyte data, including source code. As often, the attack was indirect, hackers first compromised TANSTACK, a development tool used by MISTRAL team.The malware, namedMini Shai-Hulud, is “a true worm” designed to spread autonomously by stealing credentials from one package and using them to infect additional packages.
VIRTUAL BROWSER SECURES 6 M€ FUNDING
The French start up provides a specific server to access web sites in total security, by stopping access to malicious code. AURIGA Ventures, @GoCapital, BNP Paribas Development and BPI France have endorsed the funding.
