Australia’s cyber threat report warns of rising state-sponsored attacks, legacy technology risks and increasingly disruptive breaches across critical infrastructure.
When interpreting the Australian Signals Directorate’s annual Cyber Threat Report, two logical filters should be applied before digging through the compendium of computing chaos and woe unleashed by hostile actors.
The first is that the roll call of malicious state-sponsored actors now spans China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and all their proxies. Plus, the number of opportunistic crooks who fly any flag of convenience to disguise the origin of dark-web raids on key systems and data will only keep expanding.