Chinese Hackers

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Australia accuses China of cyber attacks
targeting the government and several of its businesses

https://www.cyberscoop.com/australia-cyb...-morrison/

First it was the Prime Mi ister and then other officials that ended up revealing what was no actual secret. China has been targeting Australian public institutions and several businesses including defense contractors. There aren't many sophisticated state-based cyber actors as they called them and we already know very well that China has become some sort of enemy of Australia. Recall the they when the Australian authorities demanded a serious and impartial investigation on coronavirus origins? Well, Chinese politicians have not forgiving them for those accusations.

Those hackers at China's service exploit unpatched software vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint software, and a flaw in Citrix technology, revealed back in 2019.

Australian intelligence agencies determined last year that China’s Ministry of State Security was behind a hack on Australia’s national parliament and three largest political parties prior to a general election.

Here's Reuters report on that event full of malware.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austr...SKBN1W00VF

It's not even the first time Chinese agents perform a cyberattack against Australian companies and institutions and still, they wanna make us believe it's US spreading mere disinformation. Right...