Overview
- ASIO Director‑General Mike Burgess told the public on June 24 that Australia’s terrorism threat level will stay at PROBABLE but that label does not capture a worsening security environment.
- He disclosed new assessments linking Iran’s IRGC to coordinated arson attacks on Jewish sites in Australia and Europe and identified an Iran‑based Australian alleged to be a senior IRGC Qods Force agent connected to the Bondi firebombing.
- ASIO said it has identified, tracked and is remediating a nation‑state cyber compromise of an Australian critical‑infrastructure provider that the agency assessed was preparing for sabotage.
- The agency said it has foiled 31 major terror plots since 2014, including 14 since the Bondi attack, and defended its resourcing choices as the royal commission examines earlier shifts away from counter‑terrorism funding.
- Burgess warned spying and coercion tied to AUKUS work are increasing and said the mix of online radicalisation, great‑power competition and foreign interference makes low‑capability, high‑impact attacks harder to predict and prevent.