Tag: government
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Ban on Discord Lifted After Platform Commits to Work With DICT and CICC
The government has lifted its ban on Discord in the Philippines after the platform’s representatives met with officials from the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC). The CICC is an attached agency of the DICT. The restriction was removed on Thursday, Sept. 24. First seen on…
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Rogue AI Agents Tried to Hack Public Websites After Data Retrieval Failed
Research from Transluce shows that autonomous AI agents shifted from standard web data collection to probing for vulnerabilities in three public-facing services after traditional data retrieval methods failed. This activity targeted an Australian government health data platform, Data USA, and the University of New Mexico’s digital library. Rogue AI Tried to Hack Public Websites Transluce…
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Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366651163/Australia-sets-up-taskforce-after-OpenAI-agent-breaches-statistics-portal
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Rogue OpenAI agent targeted Australian government site
The prime minister rebuked the company for its slow response and warned that AI poses significant risks that need to be further addressed. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/rogue-openai-agent-targeted-australian-government-site/831263/
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CISA Promises OT Recovery Guidance Through CI-Fortify
Agency Tells Operators to Test Recovery Plans End-to-End for Real Life Conditions. The U.S. government and its Five Eyes partners will soon publish guidance for operational technology owners and operators on recovering from a cyberattack, the next part of their CI-Fortify initiative, officials said this week, delivering an update on the state of the program.…
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CISA Promises OT Recovery Guidance Through CI-Fortify
Agency Tells Operators to Test Recovery Plans End-to-End for Real Life Conditions. The U.S. government and its Five Eyes partners will soon publish guidance for operational technology owners and operators on recovering from a cyberattack, the next part of their CI-Fortify initiative, officials said this week, delivering an update on the state of the program.…
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CISA Promises OT Recovery Guidance Through CI-Fortify
Agency Tells Operators to Test Recovery Plans End-to-End for Real Life Conditions. The U.S. government and its Five Eyes partners will soon publish guidance for operational technology owners and operators on recovering from a cyberattack, the next part of their CI-Fortify initiative, officials said this week, delivering an update on the state of the program.…
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New bill would create federal investigative body for AI-driven hacks
A new Democratic bill in Congress would establish a federal Cybersecurity and AI Board of Investigations to provide independent government oversight of cyberattacks carried out by AI agents, following recent hacks by models run at companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and others. The bill, introduced by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., would attempt to establish a…
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Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacks Australian Medicare Site
Government Launches Task Force, Urges Agencies to Shore Up Public-Facing Systems. Australian officials have launched a task force and are urging government agencies to shore up cybersecurity of their public-facing websites and apps after the country’s prime minister revealed that a rogue OpenAI agent hacked into the nation’s public health Medicare website in June. First…
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Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacks Australian Medicare Site
Government Launches Task Force, Urges Agencies to Shore Up Public-Facing Systems. Australian officials have launched a task force and are urging government agencies to shore up cybersecurity of their public-facing websites and apps after the country’s prime minister revealed that a rogue OpenAI agent hacked into the nation’s public health Medicare website in June. First…
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Bipartisan Senate leaders introduce bill to bolster telecom cybersecurity in response to Salt Typhoon hacks
The legislation from Senate Intelligence Vice-Chairman. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Tex., would create a government-industry group to write voluntary best practices. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/senate-telecom-cybersecurity-resilience-act-salt-typhoon/
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Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law
The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia’s prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/australia-to-investigate-if-openai-hack-of-government-health-website-broke-the-law/
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KI-Agent von OpenAI greift auf australisches Medicare-Portal zu
Ein KI-Agent von OpenAI hat sich nach Angaben der australischen Regierung unberechtigt Zugang zu einem Statistikportal von Medicare, Australiens staatlichem Krankenversicherungssystem, verschafft. Der Vorfall wirft konkrete Sicherheitsfragen für Unternehmen auf: Wie lässt sich verhindern, dass KI-Agenten ihre vorgesehenen Berechtigungen überschreiten? Und wie sollten Organisationen reagieren, wenn es dennoch zu einem Vorfall kommt? Laura Ellis, Senior…
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OpenAI agent hacking spree widens to Australia, targeting government website
Before the Hugging Face and RubyGems hacks, autonomous OpenAI agents attempted to hack into three other websites, including an Australian government public health website, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/24/openai-agent-hacking-australia/
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OpenAI agent breached Australian government health website, Albanese says
An OpenAI agent gained “unauthorized access” to “non-public files” from an Australian government health website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/openai-australia-health-breach
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OpenAI agent breached Australia’s Medicare portal and nobody noticed for three months
An autonomous AI agent built by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to non-public files on an Australian government Medicare portal in June, but Canberra was only told about it in September, in what is being described as the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government system. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, speaking in New…
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UK gears up for fight against Russia’s disinformation machine
The UK government will create a new body to track and disrupt disinformation campaigns run by hostile states, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced at the United Nations … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/24/uk-national-centre-for-information-defence-disinformation-detection/
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An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/openai-agent-hacked-australias-health-service-their-government-found-out-months-later/
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UK Government Shifts to Service-Led Cyber Governance After Stinging Audit
Whitehall is shifting from mandatory cyber controls to service-led governance following a critical audit exposing failures of its 2022 cyber strategy First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-government-service-led-cyber/
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OpenAI Agent Bypassed an Australian Government Health Portal During Internal Research
OpenAI’s AI agent bypassed controls on an Australian health portal, accessed non-public files and triggered a government investigation. An OpenAI AI agent bypassed access controls on an Australian government health statistics portal in June, accessing both public and non-public files in what Australian authorities are treating as a serious AI-related cyber incident. The case was…
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How tax policy can stop threat actors from breaching US water systems
New federal programs take years to launch and fund. State and local governments need cybersecurity software now. The One Big Beautiful Bill already enables tax incentives. Congress should clarify and deploy them. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/how-federal-tax-incentives-can-protect-state-local-cybersecurity-op-ed/
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OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare govt site, probed data providers
OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a research project. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-hacked-australian-medicare-govt-site-probed-data-providers/
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OpenAI AI Agent Breaches Australian Government Website, Albanese Demands Answers
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has demanded answers from OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman after an AI agent broke into an Australian government website. The OpenAI hack took place in June, but the Australian government only learned of it recently, a delay the Prime Minister has openly criticized. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article:…
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OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files
An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.The portal publishes aggregate figures, such as spending, and is separate from the systems that handle Medicare claims and personal records. The agent reached files on it that were not…
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Chinese hackers exploit WordPress, Zyxel flaws to steal govt data
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been exploiting vulnerabilities in ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and WordPress to steal sensitive data from 996 devices and more than 18,500 records stored in backend databases. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-exploit-multiple-technologies-to-steal-govt-data/
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UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system
Tags: governmentThe government has rejected a suggestion from the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the electronic visa system should move to a more stable, token-based process, rather than the current error-prone system that relies on real-time database checks First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366650798/UK-government-defends-fundamentally-flawed-eVisa-system
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SideCopy Broadens India Targeting to Academia With ReverseRAT Spear-Phishing
The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities.”SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spear-phishing campaigns that leverage the abuse of mshta.exe to execute malicious scripts and circumvent standard security protocols,” Trellix researchers First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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Hackers Exploit WordPress CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 to Steal Government Data
A suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor has exploited the critical WordPress “wp2shell” vulnerability chain to compromise government and small-business targets across 29 countries, stealing at least 18,566 sensitive records from one Western government organization. GreyNoise linked the activity to a malicious cyber actor (MCA) it has tracked through its Global Observation Grid since early June. The…
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21st September Threat Intelligence Report
Tags: breach, data, data-breach, exploit, government, intelligence, service, threat, vpn, vulnerabilityJapan’s Digital Agency, which operates the Government Solution Service used by multiple ministries, has confirmed a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN appliance. Approximately 246,000 records were exposed, […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/21st-september-threat-intelligence-report/
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China-Linked FamousSparrow Deploys SparroWocky Backdoor in Latin America
FamousSparrow is targeting Latin American governments with SparroWocky, a new C++ backdoor that exfiltrates files, takes screenshots and evades security tools. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/china-famoussparrow-sparrowocky-backdoor-latin-america/