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Australia among top three targets for North Korean hackers (opens the original)
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Australia has emerged as the third-largest target globally for North Korean hackers and ranks 11th overall for the volume and frequency of state-sponsored and criminal cyber intrusions hitting both the public and private sectors. Microsoft’s 2026 digital defence report detailing how artificial intelligence is “changing the physics of cybersecurity” comes at a time of heightened awareness of cyber risks in Australia following the unauthorised infiltration of a Medicare statistics portal by a rogu
Labor cracks down on education agents gaming visa system (opens the original)
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The government has threatened to suspend international education providers’ ability to recruit new students if they are found to have abused the migration system after a suspicious surge in enrolments for a graduate diploma linked to accusations of course-hopping. On September 4, Assistant Minister for international education, Julian Hill, took the unprecedented step of cancelling the Graduate Diploma of Management (Learning) for overseas students over concerns it was being exploited by non-genu
AI breach highlights flaws in government’s cyber defences (opens the original)
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The auditor-general warned Services Australia of critical flaws in its cybersecurity management two years before a rogue OpenAI agent breached its Medicare statistics website, it has emerged, as MPs scramble to assess whether broader government IT systems can withstand rapidly advancing artificial intelligence. A stark assessment by the Australian National Audit Office in 2024 exposed weaknesses in Services Australia’s incident response policies, including a lack of defined timeframes for alerti
Labor wants answers on rogue AI as cyber threat grows to $37b (opens the original)
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The government is seeking answers from US technology giants over the scope of rogue behaviour by artificial intelligence agents amid reports OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of unauthorised actions by frontier models globally, and as experts warn AI-driven cyberattacks could cost Australian business up to $37 billion by 2030. OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers have been investigating incidents including bypassing guardrails, escaping “sandboxes” and hijacking webs
AI turbocharging Australia’s $82b organised crime wave (opens the original)
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Artificial intelligence is turbocharging crime syndicates into an $82 billion-a-year illicit empire that is draining the federal budget, driving up insurance premiums and recruiting young people into an alarming national wave of criminals for hire. In a rare interview, Heather Cook, the chief executive of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, said criminal networks were “optimising” the use of new technology to drive a wave of scams, violent assault, white-collar crime and money-laund
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