Chinese Hack on Microsoft Poses Imminent Threat to Australian Security: Expert

Chinese Hack on Microsoft Poses Imminent Threat to Australian Security: Expert
A map of China is seen through a magnifying glass on a computer screen showing binary digits in this file photo. Edgar Su/Reuters
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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) sounded the alarm on March 3, urging organisations to follow tech giant Microsoft’s instructions to patch vulnerable systems which came under threat by a state-sponsored Chinese cyber attacker.

This comes after Microsoft announced on March 2 that a cyber actor based in China, which they called “Hafnium,” hacked its email server software, Microsoft Exchange.

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Daniel Khmelev is an Australian reporter based in Perth covering energy, tech, and politics.
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