Komdigi, BSSN Coordinate on Agentic AI Threats; 151 Finance-Sector Response Teams on Alert

Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital (Komdigi), in press release No. 258/HM-KKD/11/2026 dated November 10, said it is coordinating with the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) to anticipate cyberattacks driven by AI agents. Deputy Communication Minister Nezar Patria said: "There is a kind of agentic AI, a set of agents moving to carry out cyberattacks", requiring dedicated risk management for high-risk services, including finance.

The division of roles places operational protection of critical infrastructure with BSSN, which has already run attack simulations, while Komdigi handles coordination of the digital ecosystem. On November 9, the Directorate General of Digital Infrastructure issued three advisory letters to users of PDN-1/Government Cloud, administrators of government domains, and all registered public electronic system operators, covering incident response team readiness, hardened admin authentication, software updates, DDoS protection, and backup and recovery. BSSN has placed 151 cyber incident response teams on alert for the finance sector, issued 208 security advisories in 2026, and sent 202 notifications to banking response units. The government said the authenticity of a viral threat has not been verified, and the figure of millions of attack activities per day comes from Fortinet sensors, reflecting detected activity rather than confirmed successful incidents.