{"id":1044615,"date":"2026-10-19T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044615"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:30:07","slug":"government-issues-critical-warning-as-ai-agents-access-indian-companies-confidential-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/government-issues-critical-warning-as-ai-agents-access-indian-companies-confidential-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Government issues critical warning as AI agents access Indian companies&#8217; confidential data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s cybersecurity agency, CERT-In has issued a &#8216;critical&#8217; advisory warning artificial intelligence (AI) agents have accessed live systems and confidential data of companies without authorisation. In its advisory titled \u2018AI Agents as Attack Vectors\u2019, the cyber agency said that threat actors are actively weaponising open-source agentic AI tools to execute rapid cyberattacks. It highlighted two distinct categories of incidents targeting the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure of Indian entities.<\/p>\n<p>CERT-In shares two incidents of AI models accessing company data without authorisation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s cybersecurity agency, CERT-In has issued a &#8216;critical&#8217; advisory warning artificial intelligence (AI) agents have accessed live systems and confidential data of companies without authorisation. In its advisory titled \u2018AI Agents as Attack Vectors\u2019, the cyber agency said that threat actors are actively weaponising open-source agentic AI tools to execute rapid cyberattacks. It highlighted two distinct categories of incidents targeting the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure of Indian entities. CERT-In shares two incidents of AI models accessing company data without authorisation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044615","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044616,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044615\/revisions\/1044616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}