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News you need to know We will hunt them down: O’Neil signals more action on Medibank hack We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. 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SAVE ARTICLES FOR LATER Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Share Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size 79 View all comments Advertisement Australia has vowed to hunt down international cybercriminals and disrupt their business operations while signalling it will make it illegal for local firms to pay ransoms if they suffer a cyberattack. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil on Sunday said a new taskforce of specialist officials would challenge the perception it was hard to do anything about cyberattacks such as the one that hit Medibank Private. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says Australia will hunt down those responsible for the Medibank hack.Credit: James Brickwood The taskforce will be a permanent operation, and will initially comprise 100 officers from the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Signals Directorate. It will be financed by existing funds to investigate cybercriminals and disrupt their activities before they launch an attack. The personal details of millions of customers stolen from Medibank are being released by hackers after the company refused to pay a ransom. O’Neil said Medibank was right not to pay the ransom, revealing the government was considering reforms that would give a “bunch of quick wins”. RELATED ARTICLE CYBERSECURITY ‘HACK THE HACKERS’: NEW JOINT TASKFORCE WILL HUNT DOWN CYBERCRIMINALS She confirmed making the payment of ransoms illegal was one of the options being considered. O’Neil said there would be a move away from the notion that the only good outcome from dealing with a cyberattack was having the perpetrators put in jail, as many were being harboured by foreign governments. “What we can do is two really important things. The first is [to] hunt these people down and disrupt their operations. It weakens these groups if governments like ours collaborate with the FBI and other police forces and intelligence agencies around the world,” she said. Advertisement “The second important thing we need to do is to stand up and say that Australia will not be a soft target for this sort of thing and if people come after our citizens we will go after them.” This masthead reported on Friday that the Russian-based REvil group was involved in the Medibank hack. It follows the cyberattack on Optus, where hackers obtained the data of 10 million of its customers. RELATED ARTICLE ANALYSIS CYBER WARFARE PAX MAFIOSO: THE GEOPOLITICAL SIDE TO THE MEDIBANK RANSOM ATTACK O’Neil said there had to be a change in the approach to dealing with cybercrime. “Cybersecurity is hard and it has to be a partnership, between business, government and Australian citizens. So, what we need to do and what I need to do in my job is drive a whole of nation effort where we see all of these groups in the community lift up their defences together,” she said. “This is an avoidable problem. 2022 has been the big wake-up call for Australia. If I look at the US it was probably last year, when they had a number of really big attacks that bought home the personal impacts of this to their citizens. So it’s time for us to wake up out of this cyber slumber and I want to push our country to do better.” The Medibank and Optus attacks have raised concerns about the amount and type of customer information held by businesses. There is a review being undertaken of the Privacy Act which is looking at the information held by businesses and its long-term retention. Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis from Jacqueline Maley. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter here. 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