New Zealand parliament targeted by Chinese cyberattack

New Zealand is latest country to confirm it has fallen victim to a Chinese state-sponsored cyber-attack. The historic attack occurred on the country’s parliament in 2021. It is understood information was stolen but was not of a “strategic or sensitive” nature, according to New Zealand’s spy agency. The Government Communications Security Bureau confirmed the group Advanced Persistent Threat 40 (APT 40) were responsible for the attack. The parliamentary council office along with the parliamentary service was hit for a very short time by these hackers before security experts acted on the threats.