What is a cyber attack, what are the targets and who is behind them? Inside the hacking attacks bombarding Australia

I'm sitting at the kitchen table, staring at my laptop screen and watching red dots pulse on a map of the world. Each represents a cyber attack underway on one of 12 strategically placed "honeypots'", but not the kind Winnie The Pooh would seek out. "There are markets for illegal arms and it's the same for cyber information," he says. "I would speculate that the attacks could be a nation state flexing its muscles but instead of a display of military force it will use cyber force," Valli says, but he stops short of naming China as the culprit. But Tom Uren from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute says China's tendency to use these strategies to steal business secrets — not just state secrets, the stock-in-trade of a spy — leads to what he calls a "scope mismatch" There is a scope mismatch between the kinds of secrets countries like Australia steal and the targets that interest China, analyst Tom Uren says.