The head of Australia’s cyber spy agency says China crossed a line when it allowed criminal groups into Microsoft Exchange servers.
Australia’s premier cyber security agency has joined forces with its “Five Eyes” partners for the first time to issue an unprecedented warning about hacking vulnerabilities.
Co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC),which seeks to take a tougher line on China,were the specific targets.
The average Australian should be confused about Australia’s policy in calling out countries behind malicious cyber attacks.
Australia and other countries - including the United States and all NATO members - have accused China’s Ministry of State Security of carrying out cyber attacks itself as well as paying for criminal large-scale hacks.
But Andy Penn,who also chairs the federal government’s cyber-security industry advisory committee,says the degree of responsibility should depend on the significance of the company’s products or services.
Ransomware-seeking criminals and their victims are in some ways co-dependent so destroying their servers could also take down keys to their victims’ encrypted data.
Tech giants say a new cyber security law to allow government agencies into their networks could cause more harm than the cyber attacks they’re designed to halt.
The info security community is increasingly endorsing the notion that ransomware gangs require a different approach than other hackers.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison capitalised on the success of the global An0m sting to push for more police powers,which legal groups say pose serious privacy risks.
The most potent ransomware gangs operate with Kremlin tolerance,based out of reach of Western law enforcement