Katherine Mansted

A real privilege to be part of @ABCTV #4corners’ meticulously researched piece on cyber criminals hurting Australians & the cyber dimension of Russia’s war in 🇺🇦

The surge in AI-written speeches in Britain's House of Commons visualised:

Experts on a @SkyNewsAust special event 'The War Cabinet', including CyberCX's @KMansted, have warned the risk of war is more significant than the public is being told, with Australia unable to sit out a regional conflict. ▶️ Watch the full discussion here: skynews.com.au/australia-news…

CyberCX's @KMansted will join an exclusive one-hour special event from @SkyNewsAust - The War Cabinet - a deep dive into Australia’s defence capabilities and our region’s evolving security dynamics.

NSC media round-up 📢 🌎@Dilnoza_U on how a Trump led US is shifting international order tinyurl.com/54v7ab7d 👥Ian Kemish reflects on what the international community can learn from the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, 30 years on tinyurl.com/4fd4uxvb 🤖@KMansted recommends exercising caution when co-operating with China on AI tinyurl.com/25495y27 🇦🇺@Rory_Medcalf provides early insights from NSC Community Consultations and explains the many forms of threats that confront our nation tinyurl.com/4x23an9r Read more from NSC experts ➡️ #section-29434" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nsc.anu.edu.au/publications-n…

As an Israel-Iran ceasefire hangs in the balance, CyberCX's @KMansted told @SkyNewsAust while military action is capturing the airwaves, there has also been a persistent and ongoing cyber dimension since the beginning of the conflict.

Why the Australian Government should release its own intelligence review - before the election is called. Full unpaywalled text of my recent opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. And yes, there is a concerning Trump angle nsc.anu.edu.au/content-centre…

Joining The Conversation Hour on ABC Radio Melbourne this morning, CyberCX's @KMansted said Australia might be behind the eight ball in realising just how vulnerable connected cars are.

Alastair @MacGibbon said CyberCX's discovery of the Green Cicada Network is one of the largest ever documented networks of inauthentic accounts found on a social media platform. news.com.au/technology/onl…

This week CyberCX Intelligence identified a network of at least 5,000 inauthentic X accounts almost certainly controlled in concert by an artificial intelligence (AI) Large Language Model (LLM) based system. Download the full report here 👇🏽 cybercx.com.au/blog/cybercx-u…

Aussie cybersecurity company CyberCX say they’ve discovered a network of overseas bots designed to get us angry and divided, warning that the software is learning and growing in sophistication.  Executive Director of Cyber Intelligence at CyberCX Katherine Manstead explains.

Speaking to ABC @RadioNational this morning, CyberCX's @KMansted outlined how our Cyber Intelligence team uncovered one of the largest ever networks of AI-controlled fake social media accounts. You can listen to the full interview here: abc.net.au/listen/program…

“In Canberra journalism circles there is a saying that if you want to know what the Australians are doing on national security, ask the Americans. It’s a reflection of the Australian public service’s culture of secrecy relative to the US” capitalbrief.com/article/austra…

Speaking on ABC @RadioNational's program, The Money, CyberCX's @KMansted said the biggest IT outage in history exposed some hard truths about cyberspace. Listen to the in depth podcast here: abc.net.au/listen/program…

Senior official Hugh Jeffrey takes on AUKUS criticisms. Just a hint of getting things off his chest. Pleasingly plain language including on transparent oceans ("bunk!") sovereignty anxieties ("zombie assertions") + AUKUS agonising ("perpetual ambivalence") podcasts.apple.com/am/podcast/aus…

As we enter the post-recovery phase of the biggest IT outage in history, our latest edition of C-Suite Cyber offers conversation starters for business leaders looking to learn from this incident: linkedin.com/pulse/biggest-…

In an opinion piece for the @FinancialReview, CyberCX's @KMansted explores some of the hard truths about cyberspace that last Friday's global IT outage exposed: afr.com/policy/foreign…

As organisations around the globe work to recover from the Crowdstrike outage, CyberCX's @KMansted told @7NewsAustralia this has been a sharp wake up call about the fragility of our digital ecosystem. Watch the full news story here: youtube.com/watch?v=DkSCFz…

CyberCX recognises the tireless, ongoing efforts of IT and cyber teams across all sectors of the economy as organisations, large and small, work to restore services impacted by a global systems outage. Every organisation has been impacted differently and will have different pathways and timeframes to fully recover from this outage. We can therefore expect some disruption to continue into the days and weeks ahead. As organisations grapple with this challenge, we urge people to think carefully before making significant changes to their cyber security arrangements. We strongly encourage organisations not to disable or remove Crowdstrike products from their environment without viable alternative measures already in place. Any such changes organisations choose to make should be cautiously and thoroughly considered. CyberCX is also aware of increased threats from scammers and malicious actors seeking to exploit the ongoing confusion, including attempts to impersonate cyber security professionals promising help to overstretched technical teams. As the situation evolves, organisations should be vigilant against such threats, report suspicious activity, and work with established and trusted cyber security partners. CyberCX continues to support our customers and partners through this time and will update them directly as we learn more. Links to further information and advice: Australian Signals Directorate advisory: cyber.gov.au/about-us/view-… Crowdstrike blog with technical details of outage: crowdstrike.com/blog/technical… Crowdstrike blog outlining potential malicious activity: crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-se… Scamwatch report form: scamwatch.gov.au/report-a-scam

CyberCX's @KMansted spoke to @abcnews about the growing risk of payment redirection scams, also known as 'man in the middle' attacks, warning that high transaction industries such as real estate are most at risk.

Chinese government-backed hackers are repeatedly targeting public & private sector networks across Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region CyberCX's @KMansted told BBC Global News.