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Australia says it's under nation-state cyberattack

by CalmStorm on 6/20/20, 5:29 PM with 78 comments

  • by dang on 6/20/20, 6:19 PM

  • by dicomdan on 6/20/20, 5:45 PM

    Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attacks an act of war in additional to traditional aggression? Seems like UN Security Council should deal with these matters.

  • by trabant00 on 6/20/20, 5:51 PM

    What a low effort article. Zero details. And the page is in huge part advertising and unrelated stuff.

  • by ve55 on 6/20/20, 5:44 PM

    Just as covid seemed to hit many with little warning and little preparation, serious cyberattacks will at some point too.

    Nations need to have more preparation, funding, and simulations, for potential large future cyberattacks before one causes significant destruction.

  • by wallacoloo on 6/20/20, 5:59 PM

    So the attacker is using “open-source code exploits” followed by phishing. To what effect? DoS of govt services? Ransoms? Something more ambitious?

  • by yumraj on 6/20/20, 6:01 PM

    China is going rogue again. Cyberattacks against Australia, bullying in South China Sea, border fights against India and so on.

    We need a unified world approach.

  • by adventured on 6/20/20, 5:54 PM

    Not just cyber attack, Australia is also under economic attack [1] for the same reason. And China just suddenly decided to sentence an Australian to death (same move they made against Canada), after five years of sitting on the case [2]. It's all about intimidation and leverage. China will press until Australia capitulates. Fortunately the Australians have backbone.

    As a superpower capable of standing off with China, the US should be stepping in and offering very public political and economic support to Australia. It's the only approach that will work when dealing with China's new era of extreme belligerence. If the US were currently being led by a wiser politician, they would be rallying allies old and new (such as India) at China's expense.

    [1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/21/austr...

    [2] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/china/australian-drug-smuggli...

  • by microcolonel on 6/20/20, 6:16 PM

    Every time PRC turns up the heat, we should get closer with Taiwan.

  • by m0zg on 6/20/20, 6:08 PM

    I'm old enough to remember everyone here shitting on Trump for suggesting Huawei 5G is a national security threat. This opinion is now so uncontroversial that even Eric Schmidt agrees: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/06/18/huawei-pos...

  • by AngeloAnolin on 6/20/20, 6:01 PM

    I am pretty sure that nations with the resources are pretty much doing some stealth cyber attack to nations they consider a threat - whether by economic or defence policies.

    Likely the scale of the attack happening is something that may have surprised the victim nation that they are calling out the attacks in the hope that it would at least calm down the intruder or even have the government intervene.

    On a side note, reading the article in a mobile device was a big PITA. Lots of ads and unnecessary information included. And they had the temerity to tell me that I am using n/3 free articles. I think I would pass from subscribing if on the limited free version and the reading experience was just worst.