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Australia is the equal fifth most targeted nation in the APAC region between July 2022 and June 2023, when assessing security considerations like nation-state activity, cybercrime, and other cyber-attacks, according to the fourth annual Microsoft Digital Defense report.

A pro-government Chinese newspaper claims malicious software, that appears to be from US intelligence agencies, has been discovered during a probe into an attack on the Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Centre which is affiliated to the city's Emergency Management Bureau.

GUEST RESEARCH: Killnet strikes again.

Australian law enforcement agencies appear to have resorted to psyops in a bid to send a message to network attackers that Australia is not the best place to do business.

Secureworks Counter Threat Unit researchers find evidence that threat group Bronze President appears to be changing its targeting, believing it to reflect changing intelligence collection requirements of the People’s Republic of China.

Ransomware has changed from being just about encrypting a victim's data and become primarily about data exfiltration, the Russian security firm Kaspersky says.

Software development and operations outfit GitLab is yet to make any announcement about a proposal it had floated recently, to avoid hiring Russian and Chinese nationals as site reliability engineers or support engineers.

The Russians are being blamed for "hacking everything", which is why, in the UK at least, the Apple Watch is being banned from cabinet meetings.