{"id":1045357,"date":"2026-10-28T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045357"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:45:07","slug":"australia-warns-of-unprecedented-ai-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/australia-warns-of-unprecedented-ai-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia warns of &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; AI threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence poses an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; threat as foreign governments turn it loose to hack computer networks and critical infrastructure, Australia&#8217;s cyber security agency warned on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Signals Directorate said rapidly advancing artificial intelligence models could be of huge benefit if harnessed for good, even using some AI tools to compile its own annual &#8220;cyber threat&#8221; report.<\/p>\n<p>But recent months had also shown how AI was helping criminals and state-sponsored hackers launch attacks at &#8220;greater scale than ever before&#8221;, the directorate said in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence poses an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; threat as foreign governments turn it loose to hack computer networks and critical infrastructure, Australia&#8217;s cyber security agency warned on Tuesday. The Australian Signals Directorate said rapidly advancing artificial intelligence models could be of huge benefit if harnessed for good, even using some AI tools to compile its own annual &#8220;cyber threat&#8221; report. But recent months had also shown how AI was helping criminals and state-sponsored hackers launch attacks at &#8220;greater scale than ever before&#8221;, the directorate said in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045357","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045366,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045357\/revisions\/1045366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}