OT Security

The move comes as state-sponsored cyber actors and cybercriminals increasingly target Australia's critical systems to steal information, conduct espionage, or disrupt essential services.

The Aisuru distributed denial-of-service botnet's record-breaking attack last week that peaked at 29.6 Tbps has been primarily driven by breached Internet of Things devices on U.S. internet service providers, KrebsOnSecurity reports.

Threat of Year 2036/2038 vulnerabilities detailed Threat actors could harness the "Year 2036 Problem" and "Year 2038 Problem" rollover vulnerabilities impacting systems using older Network Time Protocol versions and those that leverage a 32-bit integer for time storage, respectively, to prompt significant disruptions over a decade before they are actually triggered, according to SecurityWeek.

Cybersecurity Dive reports that internet-exposed industrial control system devices were discovered by Bitsight to have increased from almost 160,000 to over 180,000 between the beginning and end of 2024, and are poised to exceed 200,000 by the end of 2025.

Hackread reports that the most significant Layer 7 distributed denial-of-service attack aimed at a government entity, which involved a botnet composed of 5.76 million breached internet-connected devices and systems around the world, was averted by Qrator Labs earlier this month.