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Total assets restrained by the AFP-led Criminal Asset Confiscation Taskforce totals more than $15.6 million.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 05 Aug 2024
Exclusive: Supreme Court of NSW grants injunction in Wattle Range Council hack
Court grants injunction against accessing any data currently published or to be published in the future following a ...
Australia signs up to global campaign to fight cryptocurrency scams
The Australian Federal Police said today (5 August) that Operation Spincaster has already found more than 2,000 ...
Exclusive: Aussie engineering firm confirms RansomHub ransomware attack
Nearly 500 gigabytes of data was allegedly stolen in a ransomware attack on West Australian firm McDowall Affleck.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 02 Aug 2024
CyberCX and Curtin University partner up for sovereign cloud project
The new Nebula platform will be designed to accommodate and secure sensitive research projects.
Three-quarters of Australians don’t understand how facial recognition technology works
Despite its widespread and growing use, most Australians know very little about facial recognition.
Fake Google Authenticator app spreads malware, not authentication
A threat actor has used a legitimate Google ad to direct victims to a fake site to download info-stealer malware.
Man jailed over AI-generated child abuse material
A Victorian man has been jailed for 13 months after police uncovered 793 realistic child abuse images on seized hardware
Reporter • Thu, 01 Aug 2024
Scams a ‘key driver’ behind record rise of financial complaints
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority received 105,000 complaints for the last financial year – a rise of 9 per ...
David Hollingworth • Thu, 01 Aug 2024
CrowdStrike faces multiple lawsuits in the wake of July outage
The embattled cyber security firm faces a class action from a group of investors and a likely lawsuit from Delta ...
30% of GenAI business projects to be abandoned by 2025
Gartner predicts that nearly a third of generative AI projects won’t make it past the proof-of-concept stage.
2% of all ransomware attacks worldwide target Australian organisations
Zscaler’s annual ransomware report also notes a new record-high ransomware payment of US$75 million.
David Hollingworth • Wed, 31 Jul 2024
Criminals used funeral of popular Labor MP to scam money out of mourners
Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones revealed the incident in a speech to the National ...
Cyber attacks against Australian healthcare organisations rise by 33% YOY
Healthcare entities are coming under increased pressure as cyber extortion has risen by 61 per cent in Australia in the ...
NZ-headquartered accounting firm Xero goes down globally
Online accounting platform Xero suffers global outage as users lament end-of-month chaos, an AWS issue the likely ...
Trend Micro announces new deepfake detection capabilities
The company has revealed a new tool to detect AI-generated content and protect businesses from fraud.
3 in 5 IT professionals have fallen victim to ransomware, overconfidence to blame: Cohesity finds
Overconfidence in legacy cyber security procedures has left businesses exposed to continuity risks and ransomware ...
Liam Garman • Wed, 31 Jul 2024
Westpac teams up with Optus to fight scammers
The new partnership will provide bank customers with verified, in-app calls directly from Westpac.
David Hollingworth • Tue, 30 Jul 2024
Change Healthcare begins the process of notifying victims of February hack
The US healthcare organisation is finally notifying victims of an ALPHV ransomware attack that affected millions and ...
Ransomware gangs observed exploiting VMware ESXi flaw in the wild
Security researchers warn of hackers taking advantage of CVE-2024-37085, first disclosed by VMware one week ago.
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