Security Intelligence

Australia's cyber intelligence agency says a Chinese government-backed hacking group known as APT 40 has been targeting government and private sector networks here and around the region. But what exactly is an "APT" and what do they do? 

Australia and key regional partners are accusing a Chinese spy agency of cyber espionage targeting government and business networks, in a large-scale operation that involves stealing hundreds of usernames and passwords.

The federal government is making the Counter Foreign Interference Taskforce permanent and expanding it to include agencies such as the ATO as one of several new measures to fight the growing threat of foreign interference.

Defence Minister Richard Marles says the purpose built $2 billion cloud storage facility will keep data secure in Australia.

American technology giant Amazon will establish a "top-secret" data cloud to store classified Australian military and intelligence information under a partnership with the federal government.

For the first time, two of the people closest to the negotiations to free Julian Assange have revealed what it took to convince the United States to release the man who had published hundreds of thousands of their most secret documents.

Alexander Csergo has pleaded not guilty to the single charge after he was arrested in April last year, having recently returned home to Bondi from overseas. He has remained in custody since.

Donald Trump supporter Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was part of a bipartisan group of US lawmakers that urged President Joe Biden to drop the case against Assange.

Julian Assange is now a free man following a guilty plea made on a remote US territory in the Pacific, putting an end to his long running legal dramas.

The WikiLeaks founder and once-fugitive Julian Assange lands in Canberra after a plea deal gives him "time-served" on a conspiracy charge for leaking US intelligence 15 years ago.

Larry Pfeiffer says Julian Assange has probably served more time awaiting a verdict and in self-imposed imprisonment in the Ecuadorian embassy than if he had faced a US court.

Julian Assange may finally be out, but his case has undeniably had a serious chilling effect on public interest journalism, and sends a terrifying message to any sources sitting on evidence of abuses by the government and its agencies.

After 1,901 days in prison, Julian Assange could soon be a free man after striking a plea deal with the United States Government.

Julian Assange's family plan to sit back and have some beer and champagne should all go to plan and he is soon back in Australia.

Julian Assange has left the United Kingdom and will plead guilty to espionage. The deal marks a new chapter in a long-running saga that saw a Townsville kid take on the United States Department of Justice. 

John Blaxland says, while Julian Assange probably had the best of intentions, the knock on effects of his work has not been in the favour of liberal democracy.

Anthony Albanese has confirmed that Australian High Commissioner to the UK Stephen Smith is travelling with Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks says its founder, Julian Assange, has been released from prison and has left the United Kingdom, shortly after court documents revealed a plea deal that would allow him to return to Australia.

Just 24 hours after Chinese Premier Li Qiang dined on West Australian lobster and rubbed shoulders with the state's powerbrokers, a US Navy chief uses his Perth visit to urge a cautious approach to Australia's rekindled relationship with the superpower.

The long arm of the Indian state is reaching Australians with threats against members of the Indian diaspora, the amassing of political power, and never-before-reported details of a "nest of spies".

North Korea has tried and failed to launch a military satellite into space — a move that had threatened to violate United Nations conventions and further inflame tensions in the region.

The nation's domestic spy agency says the threat facing Australia has changed since it was given the contentious powers in 2020.

In a few hours a UK court is expected to hand down a decision on the fate of Julian Assange who’s been held in a London jail for the past five years.

Journalist Alex Barwick has lived in Alice Springs for 16 years but she's only recently dared to investigate Pine Gap, the ultra-secretive US spy base in her own backyard. 

The Federal Court has chosen not to extend a temporary order for social media company X, formerly Twitter, to hide videos of a Sydney terrorist stabbing globally.