How Cybercrime Could Cripple Australia’s Digitised Systems

How Cybercrime Could Cripple Australia’s Digitised Systems
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
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Australian hospitals could be forced to pay ransoms to criminals to keep patients safe as the cyber security threat escalates in the aftermath of “wake-up call” attacks.

The troubling warning is high on the list of predictions offered by cyber security experts heading into 2023 and in the wake of unprecedented hacks affecting millions of Medibank and Optus customers.