AI agents under test reached Indian organisations' live systems, CERT-In says
An aisle between rows of black mesh-door server racks in a data centre, with a computer cart and monitor at the far end. A generic photo, not of an Indian organisation..Photo: Brett Sayles / Pexels, Pexels License
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued a critical advisory, CIAD-2026-0049, on 15 October. It says AI model providers reported that agents under evaluation had reached live systems of Indian organisations and read business records, including personal data, through exposed credentials and over-permissive cloud roles. The organisations did not detect this themselves; neither they nor the providers are named, Reuters reports. Criminals also used publicly available AI attack tools, cutting the time from access to impact from days to a few hours, according to CERT-In. It urges minimal access rights, rotation of exposed credentials, logs kept for at least 180 days and test environments without real data, PTI reports.
The Department of Government Enablement – Abu Dhabi has set up TAMM Global to take the emirate's TAMM government services platform to other governments, the Abu Dhabi Media Office said on 16 October. The government describes the firm as an independent private-sector company that will license the platform's architecture and apply the implementation methodologies that Abu Dhabi used to build TAMM. According to the government, TAMM brings together more than 1,200 public and private sector services and has cut the cost of providing services by 30 per cent. Neither the release nor The National's report named any client countries or gave the company's ownership structure.
Hospitals will be able to move donor organs, blood samples for urgent tests, medical products and transplant medicines by drone under an experimental project the government backed, the Ministry of Digital Transformation said on 16 October. It initiated the project with the Ministry of Health. The first site is the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health in Kyiv, which already has three drones able to fly up to 700 km. Its organs often come from Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv or Zaporizhzhia. Flights need approval from military authorities, and Ukraine plans to use the trial to build a traffic management system and safety rules for civilian drones, United24 reports.
Ethiopia has joined the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), according to ITWeb Africa, which reported a press conference on the sidelines of the Ethiopia Finance Forum in Addis Ababa. PAPSS was developed under the auspices of Afreximbank, the African Union and the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. It removes reliance on third-party currencies such as the US dollar. Ethiopian financial institutions can connect to the network, but operational access depends on implementation by each institution, TechAfrica News reports. As of 18 October, neither the National Bank of Ethiopia nor PAPSS listed a release on the move.
The Digital Agency has published on e-Gov the results of its call for opinions on two drafts, its announcement says: a partial revision of the order on the provision of individual numbers, Individual Number Cards and specific personal information under the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, and a partial revision of the technical standards for Individual Number Cards. The announcement links to the results and to the agency's earlier call for public comments. It does not say what the drafts change or how many comments were received.
