Report blames China as major backer of Australian hacking

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The Australian signals directorate has released its yearly cyber threat report. It shows government agencies and critical infrastructure companies continue to be targeted by foreign hackers mostly from China.

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00:00 I think for mums and dads, for everyone, read the report.

00:03 I think the main and first thing we can do is just to be a bit more aware.

00:08 It's a new threat that we're not used to.

00:10 It might seem a bit scary, it might make us want to not think about it, but actually just

00:13 thinking about it a little can improve our security posture a lot.

00:17 I was thinking of things like dating scams.

00:19 Someone who is tricked into thinking they're dating someone and actually it's someone overseas

00:23 who's just taking them for money.

00:25 They often don't get reported because people naturally feel foolish and like an idiot,

00:30 but actually it's completely human to fall for things like that.

00:32 For a long time, no one wanted to confirm who was doing the attacks, but this report

00:37 that's just out now confirms that an attack or an investigation carried out in the US

00:42 by jointly Australia and America and presumably other countries as well has clearly identified

00:48 China as a culprit.

00:49 Have their strategies changed a lot or the volume?

00:52 No, but their strategies are evolving.

00:54 They move very stealthily.

00:56 They do living off the land type attacks, this report discusses, which are very cunning

01:01 attacks like commandos used to do in the old days.

01:03 They don't need to bring elaborate equipment with them.

01:05 They use what's available on the target systems to attack the target systems themselves.

01:10 That's very sophisticated and quite hard to track down because the software being used

01:14 isn't the bad guy's software, it's your own software, so you can't fingerprint them that

01:18 way.

01:18 Hawaii.

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