China cyber attacks on Aus

[Black Orchid]

This should have its own thread.

“State sponsored” attack across all major sectors of Australia’s economy, government, and defence institutions. He didn’t say China. But China ...
https://twitter.com/noonanjo/status/127 ... wsrc%5Etfw

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is addressing a major cyber attack on Australian government institutions as well as the private sector.
https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1273756332777078784

#BREAKING: Australian Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP
says: There has been a major cyber attack by a “state based cyber actor”. Australian Government and the private sector have been targeted in a large-scale sophisticated cyber intrusion. (China?)
https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/statu ... wsrc%5Etfw

AUSTRALIA PRIME MINISTER MORRISON SAYS CYBER ATTACK ON ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS, EDUCATION, HEALTH, ESSENTIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS
https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/ ... wsrc%5Etfw

Federal Government agencies believe that China is the nation behind ongoing cyber attacks on Australian institutions, including hospitals and state-owned utilities, in recent months.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-19/ ... s/12372470

A wide range of political and private sector organisations in Australia have come under cyber-attack carried out by a “sophisticated state-based cyber actor”, the Australian government has revealed.

Scott Morrison disclosed the far-reaching attacks at a media conference in Canberra on Friday, while his defence minister declared that malicious cyber activity was “increasing in frequency, scale, in sophistication and in its impact”.

The government is not saying which country it believes to be responsible, except to say it is “a state-based actor, with very significant capabilities”.

The prime minister declined to respond to a specific question about whether it was China, after months of tensions in its relationship with Australia, but security experts later said they believed it, Russia and North Korea were the only countries that fell within Morrison’s description.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... t-morrison

ScoMo needs to call them out.

[Black Orchid]

Amazon says its online cloud, which provides the infrastructure on which many websites rely, has fended off the largest DDoS attack in history.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to knock a website offline by flooding it with huge amounts of requests until it crashes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the February attack had fired 2.3Tbps.

That is a little under half of all traffic BT sees on its entire UK network during a normal working day.

The previous record, set in 2018, was 1.7Tbps.

"This is huge news for people in the industry," said Lisa Forte, from Red Goat Cyber Security, warning it was "enormous" compared with the previous all-time high.

"It is like comparing a moped to a super-car," she said.

"They are totally different beasts.

"These are outliers.

"But as always with cyber-threats, we are in an arms race against attackers every day.

"This will definitely be an alarming revelation to many and could be a warning that we should not ignore."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53093611

China?