Kim writes, > Yeah, it's been going on for a long time now. The announcement > today is more likely a distraction from other things the LNP don't > want you thinking about.
Yes, apparently later on his office said, “there was no specific incident this week and that the concerns were about a growing trend over recent months. Mr Morrison used a prepared statement to say that Australian governments and businesses were "currently being targeted" but this was a reference to the broader trend. The Australian Signals Directorate said it was aware of the "sustained targeting of Australian governments and companies by a sophisticated state-based actor". The actor has been identified leveraging a number of initial access vectors, with the most prevalent being the exploitation of public-facing infrastructure," the intelligence organisation said. The ACSC named "copy-paste compromises" as part of the state-based actor's "heavy use of proof-of-concept exploit code, web shells and other tools" to enable the attacks. Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said companies should "patch" their internet-facing devices promptly to make sure any web or email servers are fully updated with the latest software and ensure they used multi-factor authentication to secure any internet access. Former National Cyber Security Adviser Alastair MacGibbon said the threat was "likely a campaign by a sophisticated state-based actor" and part of a wider trend. Ref: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-reveals-malicious-state-based-cyber-attack-hitting-several-sectors-20200619-p5545z.html _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
