Introduction

Malware in AI generated images rising risk and defensive playbooks examines a growing cybersecurity concern that multimedia outputs from LLMs and multimodal AI systems may be used as attack vectors. This article integrates image provenance, steganography, image integrity, rendering pipelines, threat modeling, threat intelligence, multimedia threats, attack surface, and threat awareness into a single structured analysis. The aim is to present high level assessment and operationally safe defensive guidance without providing exploit instructions.