The Australian Signals Directorate issued more than 4,400 warnings about potentially malicious activity over the past year – an 80% increase compared to the prior 12 months. (EPA Images pic)SYDNEY: Artificial intelligence poses an "unprecedented" threat as foreign governments turn it loose to hack computer networks and critical infrastructure, Australia's cybersecurity agency warned on Tuesday.
The Australian Signals Directorate said rapidly advancing artificial intelligence models could be of huge benefit if harnessed for good, even using some AI tools to compile its own annual "cyber threat" report.
But recent months had also shown how AI was helping criminals and state-sponsored hackers launch attacks at "greater scale than ever before", the directorate said in the report.
