Cyberattacks against Australia from criminals and state-sponsored groups jumped last financial year, with a government report released on Friday equating the assault to one attack every seven minutes.
A man types on a computer keyboard in this illustration picture taken on Feb. 28, 2013. — REUTERS/KACPER PEMPEL/FILE PHOTO
While just over half of attacks targeted individuals for fraud and theft, the report warned that state-sponsored attackers made cyberspace a “battleground” and cited attacks from China’s Ministry of State Security, Iran and Russian state-linked groups. “The government has stepped up, the private sector needs to step up in the interest of their customers but also their own interest.”
The report underscored accusations that the Optus and Medibank hacks were relatively unsophisticated, blaming the majority of major incidents on inadequate software updates.
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