Hackers hacked the Australia Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison in the WECHAT Chinese Societary and changed its data. Reports about it ABC.
According to the television channel, cybercriminals renamed Morrison’s account as a “new life of the Australian Chinese”, and in the description indicated that the page provides information about life in Australia for the Chinese community. Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for Intelligence and Security James Paterson stated that the official Beijing is worth hacking. He noted that WECHAT owns the investment company Tencent, which is one of their most controlled private companies in China.
According to the parliamentarian, the social network is used for surveillance for the Chinese abroad. “This is an effective foreign intervention in our democracy in the year of elections,” he concluded. ABC writes that at the moment the government works with WECHAT over the problem solving.
Previously, the representative of the Jet Info Systems Aleksey Malnev said that machine learning technologies will help hackers to carry out fully automated attacks. According to him, millions of people around the world can be victims of such attacks.