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Germany's domestic intelligence agency and its federal cybersecurity authority warned Monday that increasingly capable artificial intelligence models are driving up the risk of cyberattacks.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's domestic intelligence service, and the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the country's main cybersecurity agency, said they expect the threat landscape to worsen as AI tools become more advanced.
Large-scale attacks are becoming easier to carry out as barriers to entry fall, the BfV told German business daily Handelsblatt. AI can support the reconnaissance, automation and scaling of a range of cyber operations, the agency said.
The BSI said it also expects misuse of AI to increase. Models developed by leading companies showed 'great potential for identifying vulnerabilities' last year, a spokesperson for the agency told Handelsblatt.
Such models are now also capable of independently exploiting vulnerabilities they identify, the BSI said.
High computing costs have so far limited criminals' access to the most powerful AI models, but the agency expects this barrier to ease as hardware becomes more affordable.
Both agencies also pointed to the technology's defensive value. The BfV described AI as not only a tool for attackers but also an indispensable component of modern defense strategies.
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