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OPINION: A growing number of attacks have blighted companies across the globe in recent years. In New Zealand, some of our biggest organisations have suffered.

'Bigger industry than the drug trade': The rise of cyber attacks against New Zealand data Newshub 25/12/2020 Madison Reidy © Image - Getty; Video - Newshub The country's spy agency warns that cyber criminals are honing their skills and getting better at their attempts to steal. The spy agency is worried about the increasing skill of cyber criminals attempting to steal Government secrets and your private information. The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) was called in to help with hundreds of major cyber incidents this year, which it says are becoming more s...

The country's spy agency - the GCSB - is all too aware of the threat they pose. "We are seeing an increase in sophisticated actors, and the difference between a state-sponsored actor and a criminal actor is getting less, and less stark," says GCSB Director-General Andrew Hampton. The GCSB was called in to help with 352 major cyber incidents this year - a third of those were launched by foreign states, like China, Russia and Korea, trying to obtain our state secrets and commercially sensitive information. That would typically be of most concern for our spies, but not anymore. "It's not just th...