ASD chief warns AI will drive more disruptive cyberattacks
Original title: Australia’s Cyber Spy Chief: Expect More Disruption as AI Accelerates Hacking
The annual report also covers an Amadey network of 180,000 computers and ASD wiping about 4.8 million stolen files.
Abigail Bradshaw of the Australian Signals Directorate said each jump in AI capability makes disruption of everyday digital services more likely, as the agency released its annual cyber threat report on October 27. The report says advanced models help criminals and state-linked hackers find and exploit flaws faster, and that AI agents can behave unexpectedly. AFP and ABC also describe government site shutdowns, a claimed OpenAI-model intrusion, an Amadey disruption, and destruction of stolen data before sale.
Unconfirmed: ABC and AFP cite different growth figures, and the OpenAI-model intrusion timeline is attributed to AFP rather than the ASD report.
- ABC says ASD-handled incidents rose 20 percent last financial year.
- AFP reports more than 4,400 malicious-activity warnings, an 80 percent rise.
- ASD disconnected Amadey, found via a free Photoshop copy, from 180,000 computers.
- ASD destroyed about 4.8 million stolen files and hundreds of thousands more.
- Bradshaw calls Anthropic’s Mythos the defining model event of the past year.
Impact: Stolen logins, personal data, and business files
- 1.Update computers and harden systems, as Defence Minister Marles urged.
- Malware
- Amadey
- Organizations
- Australian Signals DirectorateFive Eyes
- AI models
- Mythos
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Australia’s cyber agency warns AI will drive more disruptive attacks, helping hackers find vulnerabilities faster and exploit them at greater scale. Australia’s top cyber spy has a blunt message: expect more disruption to everyday services. Abigail Bradshaw, director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), says that with each jump in AI capability, more disruption is […]
By Pierluigi Paganini · securityaffairs.com
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