Posted by teoct > 2020-06-19 14:50 | Report Abuse

The “sophisticated state-based” cyber-attack Australian prime minister Scott Morrison warned about today...is not particularly sophisticated, according to experts.

But it is a wake-up call for businesses to keep their systems patched and secure, and to remain alert.

“[The state actor campaign] doesn’t look very sophisticated,” UNSW professor of cybersecurity Richard Buckland told our reporter Josh Taylor.

“It’s well-resourced in a large scale but I haven’t seen anything yet that’s super secret or super sinister. They’re using known techniques against known vulnerabilities and following known processes.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/19/australian-cyber-attack-not-sophisticated-just-a-wake-up-call-for-businesses-experts-say