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| Australia PM reveals state-based cyber attack on Australia. | |
| 2020-06-19 | |
| [The Australian] Australia is under mass cyber-attack from a foreign state targeting all levels of government, industry and business with cyber experts claiming the source of the attack could only have come from China. Scott Morrison this morning revealed that Australian organisations were actively being targeted by a “state-based cyber actor” but would not name the country believed to be behind the “malicious” cyber raid. “What I can confirm, with confidence, based on the advice, the technical advice that we have received, is that this is the action of a state-based actor with significant capabilities,” the Prime Minister said. “There aren’t too many state-based actors who have those capabilities.” Australian Strategic Policy Institute executive director Peter Jennings told The Australian it was “very clear” that China was behind the cyber attack on Australia, and that Mr Morrison was calling Beijing out. The Prime Minister said in Canberra: “This activity is targeting Australian organisations across a range of sectors, including all levels of Government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure. “We know it is a sophisticated state-based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting and the trade craft used.”
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