{"id":26174,"date":"2020-06-19T15:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T22:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26174"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T22:01:40","slug":"australia-under-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26174","title":{"rendered":"Australia under cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Prime Minister\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wwfzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmjdvjzv_qwsmggswstmgdwfnswfd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wwfzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmjdvjzv_qwsmggswstmgdwfnswfd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592689934117000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFEjdcSAxDjPnCtCccMMnfWgvnKuA\">Scott Morrison<\/a>\u00a0said Friday that a \u201csophisticated state-based actor\u201d has targeted all levels of the Australian government as well as critical infrastructure operators and essential service providers with attempted hacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know it is a sophisticated state-based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting,\u201d Morrison said in a press conference in Canberra,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yfscypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtvsqvcf_qwsmggswstmgdwfnswfd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yfscypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtvsqvcf_qwsmggswstmgdwfnswfd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592689934117000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHJ-26Lhp2wAbTdQO6W5VB_CLP8g\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He declined to identify any specific countries, but said only a handful of state actors would be capable of launching such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison said Australian cyber experts were able to determine a state actor was behind the activity &#8220;because of the scale and nature of the targeting and the trade craft used,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zbmdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqfrpfds_qwsmggswstmgdwfnswfd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zbmdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqfrpfds_qwsmggswstmgdwfnswfd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592689934117000&amp;usg=AFQjCNECKsMA2YfK69_NOl7ATR9cx5Qpaw\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We raised this issue today not to raise concerns in the public&#8217;s mind, but to raise awareness in the public&#8217;s mind,&#8221; Morrison added, saying the activity has been increasing in frequency in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know what is going on. We are on it, but it is a day-to-day task.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Prime Minister\u00a0Scott Morrison\u00a0said Friday that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26175,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions\/26175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}