{"id":640245,"date":"2026-09-30T05:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/640245\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:10:23","slug":"how-worried-should-we-be-about-ai-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/640245\/","title":{"rendered":"How worried should we be about AI cyber attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks, there have been growing concerns about how trustworthy AI really is with multiple data breaches and cyber attacks occurring.<\/p>\n<p>While we are all concerned with AI taking jobs from people, there is now a rising concern as to what else AI can do.<\/p>\n<p>While it had been seen before that people were using AI to carry out cyber attacks, it&#8217;s recently emerged that the software may not need a human to instigate hacks anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/shows\/pat-kenny-show-234857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Pat Kenny Show<\/a> about how much should we fear the evolving AI situation was Smarttech247 CEO, Raluca Saceanu, who said the company is seeing concerning developments in the style of cyber attacks.<\/p>\n<p>She explained: &#8220;As a cybersecurity company, because we&#8217;re on the front line of this every day and we&#8217;re responding to incidents and we&#8217;re monitoring attacks, we are seeing some genuinely concerning developments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI is certainly accelerating attacks. And one massive development this year has been Genetic AI, where, you know, AI doesn&#8217;t just advise hackers anymore. It can carry out tasks on its own, and that&#8217;s the concerning part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, you know, it&#8217;s also important to say that the basics are still exploited at a global level. So we are seeing two huge problems compounding each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of these attacks are exploiting very basic measures. And the good news in the [Australian government having their data breached] case was that no personal medical records were affected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, we did see the case of the AI agent being misaligned and it pursued its own goals as it was trying to research public data on Medicare spending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem here is that nobody noticed. There was no real time monitoring in place. This was released three months after OpenAI notified this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s one of the big issues that we&#8217;re seeing, the fact that not only these AI agents are exploiting these systems, but organisations don&#8217;t have the right monitoring in place to see when that happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The question remains as to whether or not AI companies have genuine safety concerns about their product, but they do have a commercial interest and their technology hacking the Australian Government might not be considered a great look from a marketing perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian breach was announced by the prime minister and is being investigated by them and by the country&#8217;s cyber agency.<\/p>\n<p>Main image: Cyber attack red alert with skull symbol on computer, Picture by: Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the past few weeks, there have been growing concerns about how trustworthy AI really is with multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-640245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}