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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