It can be revealed the perpetrators of the Northern Minerals hack were likely based in Russia, as a cyber security expert suggests that the Eurasian country poses a bigger threat than China to WA’s critical minerals sector.
The United States wants to cultivate a supply stream of rare earth elements, which are used in magnets for electric vehicle batteries and high-tech defence industry equipment like precision-guided missiles, as military rival China seeks to maintain its stranglehold on the market.
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