Cyber-attack Australia: sophisticated attacks from ‘state-based actor’, PM says
by Daniel Hurst in Canberra from Technology | The Guardian on (#54RTT)
Security experts say China, Russia and North Korea are the only countries that fit Australian prime minister Scott Morrison's description of culprit
A wide range of political and private-sector organisations in Australia have come under cyber-attack carried out by a sophisticated state-based cyber-actor", the Australian government has revealed.
Scott Morrison, the prime minister, disclosed the far-reaching attacks at a media conference in Canberra on Friday, while the defence minister, Linda Reynolds, declared that malicious cyber-activity was increasing in frequency, scale, in sophistication and in its impact".
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