Dozens of government departments and agencies are scrambling to find out how much data has been breached in an attack by Russian hackers on an Australian law firm.
The new cybersecurity co-ordinator will have to deal with a major hack attack on a law firm which appears to involve Commonwealth data.
In these Explainers,journey with us to far-flung regions (and some closer to home) to understand the tensions shaping our world.
Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation.
In “cyber persistence theory”,winning hackers don’t dominate or coerce their enemies,as they would with military arms. They instead take the initiative and restructure the landscape.
Cracking down on the net was like nailing jelly to a wall,Bill Clinton said in 2000. But governments have found myriad ways to filter,block or slow it. And now some nations want nets of their own. Why?
Michael Pezzullo says the tactics and techniques used by cybercriminals and increasingly by authoritarian states in warfare are changing almost daily.
Foreign interference and espionage is the defining generational task of security agencies today,just as counterterrorism was after the September 11 attacks.
Details of the covert missions were revealed as Britain warned of a surge in Russian-aligned hackers aiming to “disrupt or destroy” energy facilities.
Intelligence and tech safety specialists cautioned that the Russian agency whose claims helped form the basis for the leaked document may have exaggerated its success rate.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says recent attacks on Optus,Medibank and Latitude Financial are just the “tip of the iceberg” for damaging cyberattacks.