Introduction

Australia has witnessed some of the most sophisticated cyber-attacks in 2019 including ransomware attacks on three of its major political parties, the parliament during the general election, and the Australian National University.

The attack on the Australian National University (ANU) was highly sophisticated and did not require the user to click the email link. The hackers remained undetected within the network for weeks and stole identity information of all staff and students. The attackers sent an email on the 9^th of November 2018 through which they entered the network and were detected and expunged from the system…