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A data breach in Qantas’ mobile app has granted users access to the booking information of other customers.
Daniel Croft • Wed, 01 May 2024
Exclusive: Aussie lender Firstmac falls victim to EMBARGO ransomware gang
Hackers claim to have databases, source codes, and “sensitive customer data” a day after the lender notified customers ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 01 May 2024
Scam losses are dropping, but Australians still lost $2.74bn in 2023
Latest figures from the ACCC’s National Anti-Scam Centre show a decline in money lost to scams, but work remains to be ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Hackers accessed UnitedHealth through Citrix portal, says CEO
The chief executive of UnitedHealth has at long last revealed the methods through which threat actors breached Change ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Finalists announced for Australian Cyber Security Awards 2024
Cyber Daily is pleased to reveal that over 160 finalists have been selected to compete at the prestigious awards this ...
Malavika Santhebennur • Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Exclusive: BlackSuit ransomware claims attack on Australian property firm Herron Todd White
The nationwide property valuation specialists have allegedly lost more than 300 gigabytes of data to the prolific ...
RansomHub claims 700GB stolen from Australian retail design company
Infamous ransomware actors claim to have stolen a massive amount of data from an Australian retail design company.
Exclusive: Mt Hira College suffers alleged student email data breach
A poster on a popular hacking forum claims to have a database of more than 700 student emails and unencrypted passwords ...
Cyber attacks on firms are ‘in no way’ declining
For law firms, dealing with “unstructured data” can mean increased risk when it comes to cyber attacks, which this ...
Lauren Croft • Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Introducing Muddling Meerkat – a new threat actor controlling the Great Firewall of China
The newly discovered PRC-backed threat actor uses “sophisticated DNS activities” to probe networks all over the globe
David Hollingworth • Mon, 29 Apr 2024
X is failing in Australia – could eSafety stoush be the last straw?
As Elon Musk’s X continues to fight in censorship row, the company records a mere four-figure profit in Australia
SSS Australia falls victim to Hunters International ransomware gang
Hunters International posts nearly 70 gigabytes of data, totalling more than 60,000 individual files, belonging to an ...
Australians increasingly concerned over impact of deepfakes on elections
Deepfakes and other AI-powered technologies are front of mind in this “critical election year”.
Australia records 388% quarter-on-quarter jump in compromised accounts
A staggering 1.8 million Australian user accounts have been leaked in data breaches in the first three months of 2024.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 26 Apr 2024
TikTok now has 12 months to be divested from its Chinese owner or face total US ban
The US Senate has passed new TikTok legislation as a part of a long-awaited US$95 billion foreign aid package.
Ring fined US$5.6m by US FTC over poor security and spying incidents
The Federal Trade Commission has formally charged Amazon’s smart doorbell subsidiary for “compromising its customers’ ...
Australian Federal Police on the hunt for new CISO
The AFP is advertising for a new chief information security officer to help shape its Cyber Security Strategy.
Microsoft and The Coca-Cola Company announce 5-year cloud, AI partnership
Like the old ad campaign says: everything’s better with a Coke – even generative artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 24 Apr 2024
US Treasury sanctions Iranian cyber actors over government attacks
Four Iranian individuals were sanctioned and indicted and two companies sanctioned over attacks on more than a dozen US ...
Exclusive: BlackSuit ransomware gang claims hack on Octapharma Plasma
Donor details, lab data, passports, and personal information have all been allegedly compromised in the US Octapharma ...
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