Cyber warfare
‘Chaos and disorder’: Russian spies named, sanctioned by UK government
The UK government revealed the Russian agents who engaged in the attacks over more than a decade, in a rare exposure aimed at highlighting the scale of the threat to the public.
- David Crowe
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Marco Rubio rang foreign ministers – but it wasn’t really him. It was an AI imposter
Someone using an artificially generated voice to impersonate the US secretary of state called three foreign ministers and two US officials – and left voicemails.
- Humeyra Pamuk
‘Prisoner’s dilemma’: How China is using the West to try and rule the skies
China’s Great Leap Skyward has the potential to shake up global aviation, but first its premier commercial airliner must fully get off the ground.
- Chris Zappone
- Exclusive
- Crime
Prominent Sydney law firm hit with cyberattack, massive data breach
A prominent Sydney law firm has been hit with a cyber extortion attack targeting confidential information about cases and clients.
- Perry Duffin
‘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.
- David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes
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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rob Harris
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