Canberra does boats as China launches cyber war on Parliament

Tuesday 19 February 2019

An international cyber hunt involving Australian, US and British intelligence agencies has been launched in response to an attack on the Australian parliament and the major political parties using a form of sophisticated “tradecraft” that had not been detected before.

While the source country has not been identified beyond doubt, intelligence officials confirmed it was a “nation state” and they were investigating whether it had been an attempt by the Chinese government to interfere with the federal election.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.