AUSTRALIA_ Australians at risk of IS cyber attacks

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Australians at risk of IS cyber attacks

David Richardson
November 6, 2014, 8:38 pm

Australia has flown 144 sorties on Islamic State extremists, but it's believed IS had already struck first, launching a cyber-missile on Australian computer systems.

It’s thought the Middle Eastern extremist group is now holding computers, and not just people, hostage.



Australians at risk of IS cyber attacks


Detected by international cyber-crime company checkpoint ThreatCloud, the Cryptolocker attack was created by the Syrian electronic army – with the beneficiary IS.

But it's not clear how IS got the hack program from their sworn enemies.

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"Their ultimate goal and they've said it quite clearly is the destruction of western society so the fact they're going to take that to a cyber frontier is nothing that should be unexpected," Rich Costanzo from FireEye International said.

The ransomware invasion of Australia's computer systems including Cryptolocker has claimed tens of thousands of victims in less than three months.

This sees users open innocent looking emails to find their systems encrypted and locked.

This is followed by a ransom demand to provide the key to regain their files and information.

Ransom ware like Cryptolocker claims 500 fresh victims in this country every week, which means Australia is now the 7th most infected country in the world.

The Syrian electronic army is a government-backed group of hackers responsible for attacks on major media outlets like the BBC, Al Jazeera and the Washington Post.

With various ransomware programs on the "black syber-market" or "dark web", there are fears IS could launch more cyber attacks on Australia at any moment.

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