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Defending against AI-enabled cyber attacks: Guidance for medium-sized businesses ↗ source

August 4, 2026 ASD/ACSC Guidance

Summary

Hackers may use AI to rapidly discover and exploit vulnerabilities - especially in internet-facing services such as websites, target many victims at once, and rapidly progress an attack from initial compromise to data theft or extortion. Recommended actions - immediate Discuss this guidance with the CEO, cyber security and IT personnel, and cloud and managed service providers. Regularly identify internet-facing services, such as website servers and email servers, and remove those that are not necessary. Remove or replace internet-facing services that do not receive security patches (or security updates) from their vendors. Rapidly apply all security patches (or security updates) for internet-facing services, applied automatically if the risk of a faulty patch is low.

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