Australia warns of websites after cyber outage

SYDNEY: Australia's cyber intelligence agency said on Saturday that 'malicious websites and unofficial code' were being released online claiming to aid recovery from Friday's global digital outage, which hit media, retailers, banks and airlines. The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) - the country's cyber intelligence agency - said 'a number of malicious websites and unofficial code are being released claiming to help entities recover from the widespread outages caused by the CrowdStrike technical incident'.

On its website, the agency said its cyber security centre 'strongly encourages all consumers to source their technical information and updates from official CrowdStrike sources only'. — Reuters