The executive director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says no nation matches China’s cyber threat.
The trove catalogues apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners.
Russian man Aleksandr Ermakov has been named as the person behind the Medibank hack that compromised the information of more than 4 million Australians in 2022.
The hackers broke into the corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of the company’s leadership team,as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams.
Russia’s FSB is accused of hacking hundreds of MPs and civil servants in orchestrated campaign that started in 2015 and lasted years. Universities and charities were also targeted.
A new “battle of the beams” is under way and for once,Russian doesn’t always have the advantage.
Businesses will be forced to report hacks to the government as part of a sweeping $600 million cybersecurity plan.
A new National Cyber Intel Partnership will see major telcos,banks and other companies working together to proactively block online scams and malware aimed at defrauding Australians.
The government has invoked the national crisis management framework used during COVID-19 after DP World,which manages terminals in Sydney,Melbourne,Brisbane and Fremantle,said it detected the cybersecurity incident.
Anonymous Sudan presents itself as a “hacktivist” gang that is waging attacks out of Africa,but cybersecurity researchers say its targets consistently match the Kremlin’s geopolitical priorities.
The corporate regulator will target the directors of Australia’s largest companies if they fail to do enough to protect customers from a cyberattack.