{"id":973517,"date":"2025-11-13T07:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973517"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:51:56","slug":"australia-spy-chief-says-chinese-hackers-probing-telecoms-critical-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/13\/australia-spy-chief-says-chinese-hackers-probing-telecoms-critical-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia spy chief says Chinese hackers probing telecoms, critical infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Australia&#8217;s spy chief said hackers working for the Chinese government and military had probed Australia&#8217;s telecommunications network and critical infrastructure, warning on Wednesday of the potential for disruption to the economy if a sabotage attack were carried out. <\/p>\n<p>The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation&#8217;s director general of security, Mike Burgess, told a business conference in Melbourne that espionage was estimated to have cost Australia A$12.5 billion ($8.1 billion) last year, including the loss of A$2 billion in trade secrets and intellectual property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Australia&#8217;s spy chief said hackers working for the Chinese government and military had probed Australia&#8217;s telecommunications network and critical infrastructure, warning on Wednesday of the potential for disruption to the economy if a sabotage attack were carried out. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation&#8217;s director general of security, Mike Burgess, told a business conference in Melbourne that espionage was estimated to have cost Australia A$12.5 billion ($8.1 billion) last year, including the loss of A$2 billion in trade secrets and intellectual property.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973517","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\/973517","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=973517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}