Security News China blamed as major backer behind hacking of Australian companies and infrastructure

[tidyloop]

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-15/asd-reports-increase-in-cyber-attacks/103103320

More Australians are reporting being targeted by cyber criminals, as the nation's digital spy agency points the finger at China as the major backer of serious hacking of Australian companies and critical infrastructure.

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has released its cyber threat report for the past financial year, a period that included high profile data breaches at the nation's second largest telco, Optus, and largest private health insurer, Medibank.

The release of the information is timely, given last week's attack against port operator DP World and ASD's ongoing involvement with the company to establish what went wrong.

China blamed as major backer behind hacking of Australian companies and infrastructure

More Australians are reporting being targeted by cybercriminals, as the nation's digital spy agency points the finger at China as the major backer of serious hacking of Australian companies and critical infrastructure.

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[Cleo]

Every year we publish in the legacy media the top 3 students in every high school subject in each state and the top 100 overall and every year in the month following we see a spike in hacking attempts from China on medical practices in the geographical areas of those kids' schools. Many schools are persistently top-performing so the giveaways are the yearly outliers in the data.