Cyber warfare
‘Most serious in history’: China’s hacking reaches deep into US telecoms
Only in the past week has it become clear that “every major” communication company has been broken into by the Chinese spy group Salt Typhoon.
- by David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes
Latest
Ukrainian hackers inflict massive cyberattacks on Russia to celebrate Putin’s birthday
The Russian president didn’t comment on the gifts, but was hailed by some as a “supreme leader” and “tsar”.
- by Robyn Dixon
‘Absolute spy novel’: Rigging pagers to explode is no simple attack
The case of the exploding pagers has grabbed the attention of the security industry, which already has its theories.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
National security
Treasury steps up to limit ‘strategic’ security overreach
The risk of foreign disruption has to be balanced in such a way that economic activity is not unnecessarily curtailed.
- by Ross Gittins
Russia v the Olympics: How hacks, bedbug scares and a fake Tom Cruise could disrupt the Games
Total meltdown or death by a thousand hacks? The Paris Games face the biggest cyber threat so far. And the fallout could reach well beyond cyberspace.
- by Sherryn Groch and Marta Pascual Juanola
Tensions rise between UK and China after three charged with ‘spying for Hong Kong’
China’s ambassador has been summoned by the UK Foreign Office amid rapidly deteriorating diplomatic relations between the two nations after the arrests.
- by Rob Harris
Unmasked: Notorious Russian cyber criminal who plundered hospitals with ransomware
Attacks by the Lockbit ransomware operation targeted over 100 hospitals and healthcare companies worldwide. Now the world knows Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev is the mastermind.
- by Rob Harris
Russian gang behind hack exposing family violence victims, government agencies
The Black Basta ransomware gang is behind the major hack that has hit about 200 Australian organisations and federal government agencies, cybersecurity experts say.
- by Sherryn Groch
‘Societal chaos’: US cyber chief sounds alarm on China threat
The executive director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says no nation matches China’s cyber threat.
- by Matthew Knott
Online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers rare window into pervasive state surveillance
The trove catalogues apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners.
- by Frank Bajak and Dake Kang
Hunt for hackers begins: Australia to investigate Russian cyber criminal’s associates
Russian man Aleksandr Ermakov has been named as the person behind the Medibank hack that compromised the information of more than 4 million Australians in 2022.
- by Olivia Ireland
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