Australia's second biggest telco Optus is unwilling to comment on what it characterises as "rumour and speculation" that it will be moving all customers of its Virgin Mobile subsidiary to its own platform and retiring the brand. Hundreds of jobs are likely to go as a result.

Australia has blamed Russian state-sponsored hackers for what it says were attacks utilising routers in 2017 as a means to gain access to websites belonging to Australian companies.

Australian mobile rewards platform Unlockd has been forced to put off an impending IPO after Google threatened to remove its apps from the Google Play store and disable the advertising content it serves through the AdMob technology.

The cold war is well and truly alive in the telecoms sector. The US and the UK have moved against the Chinese telecommunications vendor ZTE, with the US imposing an export ban on the company and the UK warning against the use of ZTE equipment in its telecommunications infrastructure.

Mobile malware that has been christened Roaming Mantis has been found to be hijacking DNS settings on routers and redirecting users to malicious websites leading to the installation of trojanised applications.

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