{"id":1044330,"date":"2026-10-17T09:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044330"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:04:07","slug":"ai-agents-access-confidential-data-indias-cybersecurity-agency-issues-critical-alert-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/17\/ai-agents-access-confidential-data-indias-cybersecurity-agency-issues-critical-alert-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents access confidential data, India&#8217;s cybersecurity agency issues &#8216;critical&#8217; alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s cybersecurity agency CERT-In has issued a &#8216;critical&#8217; advisory warning that autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have accessed live systems and confidential data of Indian organisations without authorisation, while threat actors are actively weaponising open-source agentic AI tools to execute rapid cyberattacks. <\/p>\n<p>In its advisory (CIAD-2026-0049) titled &#8216;AI Agents as Attack Vectors&#8217;, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) highlighted two distinct categories of incidents targeting the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure of Indian entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s cybersecurity agency CERT-In has issued a &#8216;critical&#8217; advisory warning that autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have accessed live systems and confidential data of Indian organisations without authorisation, while threat actors are actively weaponising open-source agentic AI tools to execute rapid cyberattacks. In its advisory (CIAD-2026-0049) titled &#8216;AI Agents as Attack Vectors&#8217;, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) highlighted two distinct categories of incidents targeting the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure of Indian entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044353,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044330\/revisions\/1044353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}