Guides
Every guide to AI cyber attacks
Start with the main guides, then go deeper on the parts that apply to you.
Last reviewed against NCSC (UK), NCSC New Zealand and UK Government (DSIT and Home Office). Sources
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The main guides
Am I exposed?
Check whether your people, internet-facing systems and AI tools are exposed to AI-assisted attacks, with sourced pointers for UK organisations.
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How to defend
A sourced plan for UK organisations to defend against AI-assisted attacks: exposure, patching, payment checks, AI tool limits and breach readiness.
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Timeline
A dated, sourced timeline of AI-related cyber attack cases and UK and Five Eyes guidance, from the Arup deepfake fraud to the 2026 call to action.
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Questions
Sourced answers to common questions on AI cyber attacks: deepfakes, phishing, faster exploitation, prompt injection and what UK organisations should do.
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About this site
AI Cyber Attacks is published by CyPro Consulting Ltd, a UK cyber security consultancy, to give a clear, sourced account of how AI is used in attacks.
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Deepfake fraud
How a deepfake video call cost Arup HK$200m, why staff were convinced, and the checks UK finance and service desk teams can put in place.
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AI phishing
What the NCSC and the 2025/2026 UK survey say about AI-assisted phishing and social engineering, and how UK organisations should adjust their defences.
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Faster exploitation
The Five Eyes agencies and the NCSC say AI is shrinking the time between a flaw's discovery and its exploitation. What that means for patching.
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Prompt injection
What prompt injection is, why the NCSC says it may never be fully mitigated, and the design steps UK teams can take to limit its impact.
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Your AI tools
A sourced checklist for securing the AI tools your organisation uses: privileges, untrusted content, logging, vendors and the OWASP LLM risks.
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Board briefing
What the Five Eyes cyber agencies ask of leaders on AI risk, and how to turn it into a short, sourced board briefing for a UK organisation.
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Questions people ask
What they are
A plain definition of AI cyber attacks with the three types that matter to UK organisations, each tied to an official source or a documented case.
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Are they new?
The NCSC judges AI mostly enhances existing attack methods to 2027. What that means for how UK organisations prioritise their defences.
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UK statistics
The UK figures on breaches, phishing and AI adoption from the 2025/2026 Cyber Security Breaches Survey, and what they do and do not tell us about AI.
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Patching is one job. Keeping a vulnerable system safe until it is patched, and proving it, is several more. CyPro's consultants, testers and SOC analysts can take any of them off your plate.
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Find every internet-facing system you run, including the forgotten ones, and see which are still on a vulnerable build.
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Hardening and segmentation
Our consultants put the controls in place that limit the damage when something is missed: firewall rules, network isolation and tighter admin access.
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Our SOC analysts watch your systems day and night for the signs of an attack in progress: unexpected processes, new outbound connections, logins that do not fit.
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A focused test of your systems and the controls around them, so you know they hold before an attacker finds out for you.
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If you may already be compromised, our responders contain it, preserve the evidence, find out what was touched and get you running again safely.
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