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On July 7, 2026, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) published a notice addressing evolving cybersecurity opportunities and risks associated with frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models and their adoption by financial institutions. The CSSF identified that recent advances in frontier AI models are expanding capabilities across multiple domains, creating significant opportunities but also introducing new cybersecurity challenges. Frontier AI models can process vast amounts of information, generate sophisticated code and automate complex workflows, which are capabilities that malicious actors may leverage to increase the scale, speed and effectiveness of cyberattacks. The CSSF noted that traditional cybersecurity measures, including vulnerability and patch management, show serious limitations in this evolving threat landscape. Frontier AI models have the potential to drastically reduce the time window between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation, challenging conventional patch management approaches. The CSSF observed that many supervised financial institutions have insufficient vulnerability scanning frequency and delayed remediation. Additionally, many entities do not review network safeguards as frequently as required and lack automated reviews of secure configuration baselines. The CSSF calls on supervised entities to review publications from the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on AI adoption and cyber resilience. The CSSF expects all management bodies to establish governance structures that support effective frontier AI-related risk management and to strengthen organisational resilience against AI-enabled threats, in line with the ICT risk management requirements set out in the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The CSSF details measures for entities to consider, such as: Reducing attack surface exposure. Prioritising patch management by exposure and exploitability rather than theoretical severity. Securing software development pipelines. Engineering for containment to reduce the blast radius. Conducting proactive threat hunting. Implementing no-patch response procedures. Adopting AI for defence. Testing cybersecurity defences and incident response plans. These recommendations apply to all DORA-regulated entities, including credit institutions, investment firms, payment institutions, electronic money institutions and other supervised financial service providers.