Cyber warfare
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AI
Online scams are about to get more sophisticated than Nigerian princes
ChatGPT’s “evil cousin” WormGPT will allow bad actors to more accurately mimic the real deal in attempts to swindle and deceive people.
- by Suranga Seneviratne
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Cybersecurity
More sensitive Optus data leaked in major cyberattack on law firm
Dozens of government departments and agencies are scrambling to find out how much data has been breached in an attack by Russian hackers on an Australian law firm.
- by Anthony Galloway
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Anthony Albanese
Air Force commander to take on hackers as Australia’s first cybersecurity boss
The new cybersecurity co-ordinator will have to deal with a major hack attack on a law firm which appears to involve Commonwealth data.
- by Anthony Galloway
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Explainers
Rogue waves, the icy poles and hotspots around the world. We explain
In these Explainers, journey with us to far-flung regions (and some closer to home) to understand the tensions shaping our world.
Moscow accuses US of hacking thousands iPhones in spy plot
Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation.
- by Guy Faulconbridge
We’ve been getting cyber wrong for years, new book claims
In “cyber persistence theory”, winning hackers don’t dominate or coerce their enemies, as they would with military arms. They instead take the initiative and restructure the landscape.
- by Chris Zappone
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Web culture
The secret service agents had a message: take down the app or go to jail. How is the internet splintering?
Cracking down on the net was like nailing jelly to a wall, Bill Clinton said in 2000. But governments have found myriad ways to filter, block or slow it. And now some nations want nets of their own. Why?
- by Sherryn Groch and Nick Bonyhady
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Michael Pezzullo
Home Affairs chief says cyberattacks threaten ‘everything, everywhere all at once’
Michael Pezzullo says the tactics and techniques used by cybercriminals and increasingly by authoritarian states in warfare are changing almost daily.
- by Rob Harris
Agents, influence and interference: The new age of espionage is here
Foreign interference and espionage is the defining generational task of security agencies today, just as counterterrorism was after the September 11 attacks.
- by Matthew Knott
Russian ‘ghost ships’ mapping wind farms in sabotage plot
Details of the covert missions were revealed as Britain warned of a surge in Russian-aligned hackers aiming to “disrupt or destroy” energy facilities.
- by Joe Barnes, Gareth Corfield and Ben Riley-Smith
Russians brag that only 1 per cent of fake social media profiles are caught, leak shows
Intelligence and tech safety specialists cautioned that the Russian agency whose claims helped form the basis for the leaked document may have exaggerated its success rate.
- by Joseph Menn