Australia’s Intelligence Agency: Foreign Spying at Unprecedented Levels

Australia’s Intelligence Agency: Foreign Spying at Unprecedented Levels

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization chief said that the agency “is seeing more Australians targeted – more aggressively – than ever before.”

AUKUS has seen a spike in high level foreign espionage activity in Australia, ASIO boss says

ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess has revealed alarming details of foreign espionage in Australia. Photo: ASIO. ASIO has intervened to disrupt 24 major foreign espionage operations against Australia in the past three years alone, according to the domestic spy agency’s director-general Mike Burgess. That is more than the total of the previous eight years combined and has revealed an “unhealthy interest” from foreign actors in trying to access AU…