Australia’s spy chief has accused hackers working for China’s government of probing his nation’s communications and infrastructure networks.
In a speech to a financial regulation conference on Wednesday in Melbourne, Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, said while the US has been the main target, the scope of Chinese state-linked actors has widened.
“We have seen Chinese hackers probing our critical infrastructure,” he said, referring to the Volt Typhoon group. The same hackers “compromised…