Hackers have stolen around US$6.3 billion (£4.7 billion) from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, most of which was taken in under an hour. According to Binance, the attack exploited systems and individuals with the authority to carry out transactions involving such large sums.
Agencies that switch on Microsoft 365 Copilot may need their own controls to meet records obligations. New federal guidance warns the service can influence official work without preserving the prompts, outputs or context behind it.
A Commonwealth contract that banned offshore access to court data did not stop overseas transcribers reaching it. Australia's privacy regulator says the fault lay in an access-control error, not in the contract.
Attackers have begun running intrusions through AI coding assistants already approved on a victim's device. Their commands then inherit the trust the organisation gave the tool.
AI is often discussed in terms of what it might replace. But perhaps we’re asking the wrong question. What if its real value is not replacing human expertise, but extending what skilled people are capable of?
Organisations now have days, and sometimes only hours, to patch new vulnerabilities before AI-assisted attackers exploit them, Australia's cyber security agency has warned.
The password "123456" has let an attacker into Denmark's national population register resulting in names, addresses and ID numbers for about 8.8 million people being exposed.
Tracking who and what can reach sensitive files is about to sit inside one of the largest email and human-risk security platforms. Proofpoint has agreed to buy Varonis for about $US6.3 billion as AI agents gain broad access to corporate data.
Sixty per cent of Australian workers have personally spotted an error made by an AI tool at work. Almost half say the most significant error they saw had consequences beyond minor inconvenience, including financial, compliance or reputational impact.
Copilot will be able to read, organise and change files on Windows PCs with user permission, under a Microsoft plan to split AI work between the device and the cloud.
An internal AI agent at Bunnings has saved staff half a million hours of administrative work, according to Google, as parent company Wesfarmers deploys agents across its retail portfolio. The figure was cited at Google Cloud's Gemini at Work 2026 event, where the company announced the Gemini agent, a single agent for knowledge work, content creation and coding.
The NSW Audit Office is building a central platform to collect general ledger, journal and payroll data directly from state agencies. Around 180 agencies are due to be onboarded by 30 June 2027.
Customer requests made by voice or chat could soon flow straight through to back-office execution on a single agentic automation platform. Automation Anywhere has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Boost.ai, an enterprise conversational and voice AI company, from Nordic Capital.
Working out exactly what personal information was exposed in a data breach, and whose, is the slow middle step of incident response. Epiq has bought a platform built to automate it.
Agents that work out which AI regulations and standards apply to a system, then test whether its controls work, are coming to Collibra's governance platform, following the acquisition of trail ML, a Munich-based company founded in 2023.
ANZ organisations whose AI projects are stalled by data problems can now buy records governance design and enforcement technology as one package. Sydney-based data governance vendor RecordPoint has signed records and information management consultancy Informotion as a delivery partner across both countries.
