{"id":907520,"date":"2026-09-27T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907520\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:48:10","slug":"bank-chief-risk-officers-are-losing-sleep-over-ai-agent-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907520\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank chief risk officers are losing sleep over AI agent threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For banks around the world, including Australia\u2019s largest institutions, the threat of rogue artificial intelligence agents causing real-time system issues, or even financial chaos, has become very real.<\/p>\n<p>Banks, which are heavily regulated, typically have cyber defences that are extremely difficult to penetrate. Even so, revelations over the past week about AI agents accessing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/business-and-government-face-a-tough-question-who-to-trust-on-ai-20260925-p610it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medicare data, and bots targeting a raft of other government websites<\/a>, would have bank chief risk officers on high alert.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For banks around the world, including Australia\u2019s largest institutions, the threat of rogue artificial intelligence agents causing real-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-907520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}