{"id":973736,"date":"2025-11-13T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973736"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:13:11","slug":"australias-top-spy-warns-of-chinese-cyber-probes-targeting-critical-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/13\/australias-top-spy-warns-of-chinese-cyber-probes-targeting-critical-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s top spy warns of Chinese cyber probes targeting critical infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s top intelligence official has accused Chinese state-backed hackers for targeting the nation\u2019s telecommunications and critical infrastructure networks, raising alarms about the potential for cyber sabotage and economic disruption. As reported by Reuters, speaking at a business conference in Melbourne, Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has revealed that the hackers linked to the Chinese government and military have been probing the Australia\u2019s digital backbone. Burgess also revealed that the Chinese hackers are trying to infiltrate water, energy, transport and telecom systems of the country. Burgess said that all these means are part of a broader \u2018cyber-enabled sabotage\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s top intelligence official has accused Chinese state-backed hackers for targeting the nation\u2019s telecommunications and critical infrastructure networks, raising alarms about the potential for cyber sabotage and economic disruption. As reported by Reuters, speaking at a business conference in Melbourne, Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has revealed that the hackers linked to the Chinese government and military have been probing the Australia\u2019s digital backbone. Burgess also revealed that the Chinese hackers are trying to infiltrate water, energy, transport and telecom systems of the country. Burgess said that all these means are part of a broader [&hellip;]<\/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-973736","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\/973736","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=973736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}