Australia Now a Cyberattack Hotbed With Defence Department the Latest Target

Australia Now a Cyberattack Hotbed With Defence Department the Latest Target
Participant hold their laptops in front of an illuminated wall at the annual Chaos Computer Club (CCC) computer hackers' congress, called 29C3, on December 28, 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. Photo by Patrick Lux/Getty Images
Daniel Y. Teng
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The Australian Defence Force has become the latest target in a spate of ongoing cyberattacks against major organisations in the country, with the Defence Department’s internal communication platform, Forcenet, targeted in the ransomware attack.

The platform is used for communication between serving defence members, Australian public service personnel and their families and contains data from 2018.

Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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