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Thu 7 May
ASD's ACSC has observed ClickFix social-engineering activity using compromised WordPress sites to distribute Vidar Stealer against Australian infrastructure. Treat unexpected 'paste this command' prompts as hostile. This is social engineering, not an AI-stack flaw.
Fri 1 May
On 1 May 2026 ASD's ACSC, with CISA, NSA, and the other Five Eyes cyber centres, published guidance on LLM-based agentic AI. The agencies say agents that plan and act are a different risk than a chatbot. Adopt incrementally, keep them on low-risk tasks, enforce least privilege, and require a human for high-impact actions. Treat this inside existing cyber programmes, not as a side hobby.
Sun 1 Mar
ASD's ACSC, with Five Eyes partners, published mitigations for ongoing exploitation of Cisco SD-WAN, including CVE-2026-20127, CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122. Patch, hunt, and follow Cisco's hardening guidance.