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ASIO disrupted 24 'major espionage and foreign interference' operations in three years
Australia's top domestic spy chief Mike Burgess has used a speech to give his most detailed account yet of the scale of the ...
Huge cost of ASIO espionage revealed
ASIO chief Mike Burgess has urged all Australians to be more aware as he revealed for the first time that foreign espionage ...
Australia intelligence chief says spies targeting rare earths and Aukus
Foreign spies are “aggressively” targeting Australia in sectors spanning rare earths to Antarctic research and even stealing ...
ASIO boss Mike Burgess gives chilling address on foreign espionage which has cost Australia $12.5 billion in a single year
ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess has given a chilling address concerning "unprecedented" foreign espionage, telling an ...
Anadolu Agency17h
Espionage costs Australia $8B a year, says spy chief
Moscow remains persistent threat, with undeclared intelligence officers from Russia removed in 2022 and two Russian-born ...
The Strategist6h
Espionage costs Australia more than $12.5 billion a year: ASIO shows us the receipts
Spying by nation states is not new, and despite our geography, Australia has never been immune. This was made abundantly clear in a unique study, released last night by Director-General of Security ...
Espionage costing Australia $13b a year: ASIO chief
ASIO chief Mike Burgess says intellectual property theft is hurting Australian firms, and named Russia as behind one foiled ...
'Spying at unprecedented levels': $13.6b annual cost for Australia
The country's domestic spy chief says 24 "major espionage and foreign interference" operations have been disrupted in the ...
Espionage cost Australia at least $13.6 billion in the last financial year, country’s spy boss says
Australia’s spy chief said espionage cost the economy a minimum A$12.5 billion ($13.6b) in the 2024 financial year, as he sought to raise awareness about the intensification of foreign efforts to ...
ASIO reveals the true cost of espionage
ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess has revealed espionage is costing Australia more than 12 billion dollars a year.
A 'present, costly danger': ASIO director details 'relentless' acts of international espionage
ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has warned foreign spy agencies are "aggressively targeting" a range of sectors, as well ...
‘Spying at unprecedented levels’: ASIO boss sounds alarm on espionage threat
More than 35,000 Australians have exposed themselves to danger by boasting on professional networking sites that they have ...