INTERPOL's Security Chief Says AI Defense Starts With One Question

The security chief of INTERPOL said that AI defence starts with one question, according to a report published by beincrypto.com. The report's headline states that AI defence begins with a single question. The report attributes the statement to the official by role; the official is not named in the excerpt. According to the excerpt, the question concerns who is carrying out an attack: the report says opportunistic criminals and advanced persistent threat actors can require different defences from one another.

The report states that cyber risk is climbing corporate risk registers. It also cites a finding by TeamT5 that Chinese state-affiliated groups more than doubled their attack volume after adopting open-source AI models. According to the excerpt, that finding attributes the increase in attack volume of more than double to those groups' adoption of open-source AI models. The excerpt does not give further figures for the attacks, their targets, or the period covered.

The report places the distinction between opportunistic criminals and advanced persistent threat actors at the centre of AI defence planning, presenting the two categories as requiring different responses. It presents the rise in corporate risk-register attention alongside the TeamT5 finding, indicating that the increased attack volume by state-affiliated groups is being registered as a business risk. The excerpt does not state which defences INTERPOL recommends, or whether any specific measures accompany the single question it identifies.