NSW government was target of major cyber attack operation linked to China

"It is an affront to our national interest and sovereignty that such events occur," said Mr MacGibbon, who is now chief strategy officer at CyberCX after a long career in public policy including as head of the ACSC.Asked whether electricity assets were a target of the cyber attacks, a spokesman for the Australian Energy Market Operator said it took cyber attacks "very seriously" and was aware of the "sustained cyber campaign targeting Australia".

The Australian Cyber Security Centre said it was working with the organisations subject to the malicious cyber attack.", where hackers subtly change open source code, 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. Australia's chief cyber agency said its investigations have so far found no evidence that the actor attempted to be "disruptive or destructive" once gaining access to a network.

"Cybersecurity risks hold a level of uncertainty, however this demonstrates the importance of a public-private partnership and how it will enable a new level of flexibility and strength through the opportunity of knowledge sharing as cyber threats become more sophisticated," Mr Duca said.were not related to the malicious activity announced on Friday morning. The attack on Lion is believed to have originated from Russia, according to government sources.

Lion said its expert cyber team was investigating the ransomware attack that caused a partial IT outage last week.Federal Labor Leader Anthony Albanese said he also received a full briefing on the cyber attacks by intelligence agencies.NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian's office declined to comment.

Gallo_Ways CroweDM Fake news!!! Unemployment rate 20%, ruby princess debacle, corruption in fed govt, report on real issues!!!

Gallo_Ways CroweDM LNP deflection. Where are the details?

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Gallo_Ways CroweDM Can someone please explain what they are actually doing? What does it look like? What are the stealing or destroying? What is the solution? How can the perpetrators be punished?

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stephendziedzic Gallo_Ways CroweDM Funny that it's only LNP governments eh?

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Gallo_Ways CroweDM BS

Gallo_Ways CroweDM Grabbing some dirt

Gallo_Ways CroweDM When they don't disclose what is going on due to 'national security' you know its lies

Gallo_Ways CroweDM Interesting timing for the announcement of what was an on-going attack.

Gallo_Ways CroweDM Oh yeah. This alol reeks of BS!

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