One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce is calling for an investigation into whether China’s missile test this week is linked to the Telstra outage affecting phone services and critical infrastructure across Australia. The country’s biggest telecommunications firm on Wednesday experienced network problems “affecting some mobile calls and data connections”. The outage, which was 90 per cent…
ESET has published a report on nation-state-aligned cyber activity between October 2025 and March 2026, identifying sustained operations by China-aligned groups against targets in Venezuela, Syria, South Korea and the Gulf. Chinese threat actors remained active across maritime, energy, government and advanced technology targets during the period. ESET linked that activity to areas where Beijing…
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued fresh guidance calling on local government and critical infrastructure operators to harden denial-of-service (DoS) defences following a rise in pro-Russia hacktivist activity targeting organisations. The hackers attempt to disrupt operations, take websites offline, and disable services. “In particular, the group NoName057(16) has been active since March 2022,…
(Reuters) -A Russian drone attack overnight damaged a power facility near the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, leaving more than 29,000 customers without electricity on Sunday morning, the region’s governor said. Hardest hit was the city of Chornomorsk, just outside Odesa, where the attack also damaged residential houses and administrative buildings, said Oleh Kiper, the…
China’s ‘biggest threat’ to the US has been revealed (Image: Getty) A cybersecurity expert has delivered a chilling alert that China represents the greatest technological threat to Western countries, possessing the ability to trigger a ‘killswitch’ on America’s power grid at will. In response to this disclosure, the United States has initiated numerous probes into…
A cybersecurity expert says Chinese products have a ‘killswitch’ and it will affect the US (Image: getty) A cybersecurity expert warns that China is the biggest technological threat to the United States, as they have the potential to flip the ‘killswitch’ on our electrical infrastructure at any time. In 2019, the Former Director of National…