‘Attack everything’:Russia-linked hackers claim they knocked OpenAI offline this week

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.

• November 10,2023
• byRyan Gallagher

Watchdog takes aim at company directors over cybersecurity

The corporate regulator will target the directors of Australia’s largest companies if they fail to do enough to protect customers from a cyberattack.

• September 18,2023
• byColin Kruger

The coming $6 billion bill that is sapping our productivity growth

Banks once used a sticker to ward off robbers. But as security threats have grown,so have the ways to protect ourselves. And the cost of that is rising fast.

• September 11,2023
• byShane Wright

Hostile actors hack Britain’s electoral commission

Electoral security has emerged as a key issue in many countries since US officials found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to boost Donald Trump’s White House campaign.

• August 9,2023
• bySachin Ravikumar

Online scams are about to get more sophisticated than Nigerian princes

ChatGPT’s “evil cousin” WormGPT will allow bad actors to more accurately mimic the real deal in attempts to swindle and deceive people.

• August 2,2023
• bySuranga Seneviratne

More sensitive Optus data leaked in major cyberattack on law firm

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.

• July 1,2023
• byAnthony Galloway

Air Force commander to take on hackers as Australia’s first cybersecurity boss

The new cybersecurity co-ordinator will have to deal with a major hack attack on a law firm which appears to involve Commonwealth data.

• June 23,2023
• byAnthony Galloway

Rogue states,danger zones and hotspots. We explain

In these Explainers,journey with us to far-flung regions (and some closer to home) to understand the tensions shaping our world.

Moscow accuses US of hacking thousands iPhones in spy plot

Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation.

• June 2,2023
• byGuy Faulconbridge

We’ve been getting cyber wrong for years,new book claims

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.

• May 30,2023
• byChris Zappone