The hack of Medibank and Optus should move Australia out of its “cyberslumber”, according to the Home Affairs Minister who signalled more forms on the agenda. | swrighteconomy medibankhack
Australia has vowed to hunt down international cybercriminals and disrupt their business operations while signalling it will make it illegal for local firms to pay ransoms if they suffer a cyberattack.would challenge the perception it was hard to do anything about cyberattacks such as the one that hit Medibank Private.
O’Neil said Medibank was right not to pay the ransom, revealing the government was considering reforms that would give a “bunch of quick wins”.She confirmed making the payment of ransoms illegal was one of the options being considered. “What we can do is two really important things. The first is [to] hunt these people down and disrupt their operations. It weakens these groups if governments like ours collaborate with the FBI and other police forces and intelligence agencies around the world,” she said.“The second important thing we need to do is to stand up and say that Australia will not be a soft target for this sort of thing and if people come after our citizens we will go after them.
“This is an avoidable problem. 2022 has been the big wake-up call for Australia. If I look at the US it was probably last year, when they had a number of really big attacks that bought home the personal impacts of this to their citizens. So it’s time for us to wake up out of this cyber slumber and I want to push our country to do better.”
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