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The cyber honey trap that caught out Beijing

The cyber honey trap that caught out Beijing

The inside story of the new front line in China's escalating cyber offensive and its most notorious hacking group, Stone Panda.

Craig Valli, director of the Security Research Institute at Edith Cowan University, is at the frontline of an escalating cyber war. Philip Gostelow

Angus GriggNational affairs correspondent

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It's just before 9am in China and a hacker from the regional city of Xinpu is embarking on an early offensive.

The target is an industrial control system in Western Australia and the objective is to infiltrate the network and plant malicious software which could one day be used to steal information or cripple that business.

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Angus Grigg
Angus GriggNational affairs correspondentAngus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com

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