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- 28 Sept 2026·Artificial AnalysisArtificial Analysis launches a cyber defence indexFrontierPolicy
An independent composite compares agent performance on defensive vulnerability discovery and patching. Its score is not an attack-rate measure.
- 27 Aug 2026·NCSCNCSC warns of increased targeting of operational technologyOTPolicy
Increased OT targeting across sectors globally, including the UK, with some limited real-world disruption. Not attributed to AI.
- 13 Aug 2026·Focus TaiwanTaiwan confirms hybrid AI-agent cyber campaign reportingIncidentPolicy
Government confirmation supports the existence of the campaign, while autonomy, scale and attribution details remain more uncertain.
- Jul 2026·AI Security InstituteHow far behind the frontier are leading open weight models on cyber?Open-weight
On AISI's evaluations, the open-weight cyber gap is estimated at 4 to 7 months, narrower than 6 to 10 months through most of 2025.
- 13 May 2026·AI Security InstituteHow fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing?FrontierOT
A newer Mythos Preview checkpoint delivered the first completion of both AISI cyber ranges, including the Cooling Tower ICS range.
- 1 May 2026·CISACISA and partners publish guidance for agentic AI adoptionPolicy
Joint guidance describes security risks and mitigations for organisations adopting agentic AI services. It is policy context, not an incident report.
- 30 Apr 2026·AI Security InstituteOur evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilitiesFrontier
On AISI's evaluations, GPT-5.5 became the second model to complete a multi-step corporate network simulation end to end.
- 18 Dec 2025·AI Security InstituteFrontier AI Trends ReportFrontierOpen-weight
AISI's first public report on two years of frontier model testing, including cyber task trends and open-weight gap estimates.
- 3 Dec 2025·CISA and international partnersJoint partners set principles for AI integration in OTOTPolicy
Multinational guidance covers governance, assurance and risk management when introducing AI into operational technology.
- 14 Nov 2025·BBC NewsAI firm claims Chinese spies used its tech to automate cyber attacksIncident
BBC coverage of Anthropic's report, including sceptical responses from security researchers.
- 13 Nov 2025·AnthropicDisrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaignIncident
Anthropic's self-reported account of a campaign against roughly 30 targets using its coding agent.
- 22 Oct 2025·Cyber Monitoring CentreCyber Monitoring Centre statement on the JLR cyber incidentOT
Category 3 systemic event, estimated £1.9bn UK impact. Not an AI incident; relevant as a lesson on production impact.
- 1 Oct 2025·ENISAENISA publishes its 2025 EU threat landscapePolicy
ENISA analysed 4,875 incidents across the EU reporting period. The figure covers cyber incidents generally and is not AI-attributed.
- 7 May 2025·NCSCImpact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027Policy
NCSC assessment: AI will almost certainly continue to make elements of cyber intrusion more effective and efficient.
- 17 Mar 2025·METRHCAST measures agent performance against human task timeFrontier
METR reports results across 189 mixed software, machine-learning, cyber and reasoning tasks, not a cyber-only score.