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Oct 8, 2026
Bernard HickeyHOST
And, and it's also being inconsistent.
Bernard HickeyHOST
New Zealand has actually been quite openly critical of China on issues including human rights inside China, uh, the hacking and, uh, state-sponsored cyber threats with the increasingly quite open and public criticism through the Five Eyes institutions and, and through the GCSB.
Bernard HickeyHOST
You know, the types of criticisms we've made of our largest trading partner I don't think we would have made of our second-largest trading partner-
Robert PatmanGUEST
Mm
Smith K. SteadGUEST
Um, so I think, uh, uh, P- Palantir has contracts dating back to at least 2011, 2012, uh, with the New Zealand Defence Force and the New Zealand intelligence agencies.
Smith K. SteadGUEST
So that's NZSIS, the Security Intelligence Services, and the GCSB, which is our, um, sig- SIGINT, you know, signals intelligence, uh, agency.
Smith K. SteadGUEST
Um, so those, those have been ongoing since 2011.
Smith K. SteadGUEST
Um, and in 2019, after the, uh, Christchurch massacre, which was the, where a, you know, fascist live-streamed himself, um, killing 51, um, worshipers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, um, Palantir approached the New Zealand...
Phil PenningtonCORRESPONDENT
And we've had our own national cyber...
Phil PenningtonCORRESPONDENT
Security Centre, which is part of the GCSB in New Zealand, and they're saying that within a few months, by early next year, they expect that malicious actors will be able to get hold of these advanced models.
Phil PenningtonCORRESPONDENT
Remember, these are the models that are so smart they were able to get out of the test beds, jump out, and go and hack off their own volition, hacking companies, hacking governments, hacking the Australian government, we learned, and these are from the big labs such as OpenAI.
Phil PenningtonCORRESPONDENT
So we've got this real confluence happening.
Emma BickerstaffeGUEST
Before I dive in, I'm just going to touch on NCSC and who we are.
Emma BickerstaffeGUEST
We are part of the Government Communications Security Bureau, which I'm sure you all know.
Emma BickerstaffeGUEST
But the mission at the GCSB is to provide our customers with intelligence advantage in addition to supporting our country to be cyber resilient.
Emma BickerstaffeGUEST
We deliver on the second mission as a lead operational cybersecurity agency.
Emma BickerstaffeGUEST
We have a whole of economy mandate now with the integration of CERT over a year ago, but we are intelligence-led and intelligence-driven in the work that we do.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Really interesting to talk to you about that.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Katrina Robinson, GCSB deputy director and general director of cyber...
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Anyway, I don't really know.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
They're, they're the security team that sit within our spy network.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Really interesting to talk to you about that.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Katrina Robinson, GCSB Deputy Director-in-General, Director of Cyber...
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Anyway, I don't really know.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
They're the security team that sit within our spy network.
Catherine RyanHOST
For example, our national cybersecurity report out today talking about some of those issues you know, anthropic and the others saying, oh, this is so powerful, we can't release this because it can break everybody's, it can hack into any system and find vulnerability, so we can't release it.
Catherine RyanHOST
The National Cyber Security Centre within, I think it's within GCSB, report out today, it says, well, you can expect some of those tools to be in action next year.
Catherine RyanHOST
So there's big things.
Catherine RyanHOST
And I'll come to the Australian government medical hack in a moment.
Christina ParaskosHOST
An incident is outlined in the latest annual report from the National Cyber Security Centre.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Deputy Director General of Cyber Security at the Government Communications Security Bureau, Katrina Robinson, says a large and reputable local business hired a remote IT worker... and then got suspicious.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Discovered
Katrina RobinsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
that on investigation by ourselves and by New Zealand police, that this person had lied about who they were, falsified their identity, paid a person in New Zealand to receive a work laptop on their behalf, and were in effect, to be fair, doing work for the company, but also putting the company at risk of breaching New Zealand sanction law.
Victoria YoungGUEST
And I think, you know, a lot of SMEs, they think this is only going to happen to the big guys.
Victoria YoungGUEST
And I guess that's why, I mean, this case study, you know, we're talking about it now during Cyber Smart Week, which is like the government's security, GCSB's sort of awareness week in, you know, where they're releasing survey data on how common this is.
Victoria YoungGUEST
But, you know, they just don't think...
Victoria YoungGUEST
SMEs just don't think it's going to happen to them because you kind of think, why would you? If you were a cyber attacker, wouldn't you go for the big guys? But, you know, apparently not.
Victoria YoungGUEST
You know, those aspects of it, whereas somebody who's not a bookkeeper who runs another service business or whatever, a dairy or retail, whatever, isn't going to necessarily think about that and is possibly just going to want the problem to go away.
Victoria YoungGUEST
So yeah, that's what we're looking at.
Victoria YoungGUEST
And we're looking at, what does GCSB say? New Zealanders lose more than $1.6 billion a year to cybercrime through fraud.
Victoria YoungGUEST
And there's been a lot of work from the banks around older people and banks' accounts and that sort of thing.
Paul SpainHOST
So we're really all at risk, aren't we?
Stephen PhillipsGUEST
Yeah, and if you look at the figures from the GCSB, the government's computer security bureau that they put out, it's getting into the hundreds of millions of dollars every year, basically, that New Zealand businesses are being defrauded out of.
Paul SpainHOST
And that's just the ones that actually are reported and most folks are actually embarrassed and don't want to talk about or report what's going on.
Paul SpainHOST
Yeah,
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