BCB in Brief: Parliamentary cyberattack and dangerous military intercept
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What happened
Australia revealed on 6 May that two days earlier a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force fighter aircraft had dangerously intercepted an Australian Defence Force (ADF) helicopter, releasing flares across its flight path.
The Department of Defence described the PLA’s conduct as “unsafe and unprofessional,” while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it “completely unacceptable.”
It was also revealed on 6 May that six Australian parliamentarians had been targeted in 2021 by Chinese state-backed hacking group APT31 as part of a broader intelligence gathering exercise against members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China—an international network of lawmakers critical of the Chinese government.
