00:00ASIO is aware of one nation state and no prizes for guessing who, conducting multiple
00:12attempts to scan and penetrate critical infrastructure in Australia and other Five Eyes countries,
00:18targeting water, transport, telecommunications and energy networks.
00:25You may have heard about the oddly named Salt Typhoon and Vault Typhoon hacking groups.
00:31I know many of you are confounded by those silly nicknames, as am I, so let me decode
00:36them further.
00:38These hacking groups work for the Chinese government intelligence and military agencies.
00:43Both groups were involved in the theft of sensitive information.
00:48But the real danger was the threat of sabotage, disruption to critical infrastructure.
00:55Salt Typhoon's intent was espionage.
00:58They penetrated the United States telecommunications systems to gain access to the nation's communications
01:03through a strategic spying operation.
01:07And they have been probing our telecommunications networks in Australia too.
01:13In contrast, Vault Typhoon's intent was disruptive.
01:17The hackers compromised American critical infrastructure networks to pre-position for sabotage.
01:23The penetrations gave China the ability to turn off telecommunications and other critical
01:28infrastructure networks.
01:30And yes, we have seen the Chinese hackers probing our critical infrastructure here as well.
01:39What are the implications if a nation state took down all of our networks, or turned off the
01:44power during a heat wave, or polluted our water supply, or crippled our financial system?
01:52I assure you these are not hypotheticals.
01:55Foreign governments have elite teams investigating these possibilities today.
02:00And there are multiple scenarios where nation states' intent could shift from stealing and
02:05meddling to disruption and damage.
02:35your directives can be counter-rebotham, or melhor-control.
02:39You've done so.
02:40You've got these problems that are delightful.
02:41You've got these problems that do I need you know, ?
02:42But there are multiple scenarios where people can use that sound effect.
02:45And so you've found them like, there's a range of subconscious knowledge.
02:47You've got these problems that do I need you to go into the direction.
02:49You've got these problems that do I need you to do?
02:51So you know thebles that do I need you to do?
02:53So, you've got these problems that thank you to try and you to try and you to try and you can
02:55what's to do.
02:59You're going to be curious.
03:00I need to be curious.
03:01You've got a problem.
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