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The regulatory gap that allows compromised Australian home devices to be weaponised in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks will remain open for the foreseeable future.

Neglecting semantics will cause AI agents to be inaccurate and inefficient, exposing organizations to wasted spending and increased data and AI governance vulnerabilities, said Gartner, Inc.

Artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and the proliferation of non-human digital identities are driving a fundamental shift in enterprise cybersecurity risk, according to a new report by KPMG International. The Cybersecurity Considerations 2026 report - drawing on insights from more than 20 KPMG cyber experts and senior leaders from Google, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ServiceNow - identifies eight priority areas demanding urgent attention from enterprise security leaders.

Anthropic has expanded Project Glasswing, its AI-powered cybersecurity vulnerability program, to approximately 150 new organisations across more than 15 countries - with Australia and New Zealand among the nations included in the second cohort, according to reporting by the Financial Times. Anthropic has not publicly confirmed the country list.

The financial services industry has become the most targeted by network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, new Akamai research has found.

ANZ organisations are reshaping resilience strategies as AI agents widen the attack surface, AvePoint ANZ Managing Director Max McNamara told a Sydney Gartner audience.

Australia's privacy regulator has opened consultation on guidance for new transparency rules. The rules will force organisations to disclose how they use automated decision-making (ADM) systems.

New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner has found both a major private patient portal vendor and the country’s central public health agency in breach of patient privacy laws, following a December 2025 cyber incident that exposed the sensitive records of nearly 100,000 people.

A terabit-scale DDoS attack took Australia’s largest privately-owned Web host offline on Saturday 23 May. The takedown has laid bare a regulatory gap that forces enterprise and government customers to fund the country’s DDoS defences themselves.

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) concedes adoption of standards remains “sporadic” more than two decades after foundational digital health work began in Australia but claims a new framework will drive uptake.