10 Apr 2025

Tech: Bad cyber dog, Australian super funds attack

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 10 April 2025
One of Unitree Robotics' Go1 robot dogs.

One of Unitree Robotics' Go1 robot dogs. Photo: Unitree Robotics

Cyber security expert Tony Grasso looks at how researchers have found a backdoor in Chinese-made robot dogs that could allow for spying.

A coordinated cyberattack targeted several major Australian superannuation funds, with the criminals using stolen passwords for sale on the dark web - is this a tech version of a smash and grab?

And cybersecurity agencies have issued a warning about the increased use of the "fast flux" technique by various hacking groups.

Tony Grasso is Principal Consultant at cybersecurity firm TitaniumDefence. He worked at GCHQ in the UK and is a former Intelligence Officer in New Zealand