A News from Australia is coming that their central bank’s computer have been hacked by a Chinese developed MALWARE, in a series of successful cyberattacks seeking intelligence on tense 2011 G20 negotiations.
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s some computers had been infiltrated in 2011 by a Chinese-developed “malware” spy programme that was seeking intelligence on sensitive G20 negotiations, ‘The Australian Financial Review’ newspaper said today.
The Bank did not comment till now on this hack that what has been stolen from their computers or no, or over what period the assailants had access to its systems.
“As reported in today’s media, the Bank has on occasion been the target of cyberattacks,” the bank said in a statement confirming that hackers had penetrated it computers.
“The Bank has comprehensive security arrangements in place which have isolated these attacks and ensured that viruses have not been spread across the Bank’s network or systems. At no point have these attacks caused the Bank’s data or information to be lost or its systems to be corrupted.”
“The targeting of high-profile events, such as the G20, by state-sponsored adversaries,cybercriminals and issue-motivated groups, is a real and persistent threat. The information contained on government systems relating to high profile events, whether classified or unclassified, can be of strategic interest to cyberintruders,” an Australian Defence Ministry spokesperson said.
