Cyber warfare
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
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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
Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members
The hackers broke into the corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of the company’s leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams.
- by Frank Bajak
‘Star Blizzard’: Britain blames Russian hackers for meddling in 2019 election
Russia’s FSB is accused of hacking hundreds of MPs and civil servants in orchestrated campaign that started in 2015 and lasted years. Universities and charities were also targeted.
- by Rob Harris
The invisible factor impacting war in Ukraine besides weather and terrain
A new “battle of the beams” is under way and for once, Russian doesn’t always have the advantage.
- by Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik
Hackers’ honeypot: customer data storage laws set to be wound back
Businesses will be forced to report hacks to the government as part of a sweeping $600 million cybersecurity plan.
- by Matthew Knott
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Cybersecurity
‘Stop hackers in their tracks’: Corporate giants muscle up against cyber threats
A new National Cyber Intel Partnership will see major telcos, banks and other companies working together to proactively block online scams and malware aimed at defrauding Australians.
- by Lisa Visentin
Ports to remain closed as AFP investigates cybersecurity breach
The government has invoked the national crisis management framework used during COVID-19 after DP World, which manages terminals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle, said it detected the cybersecurity incident.
- by Amber Schultz and Rebecca Peppiatt