Daniel Croft

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Born in the heart of Western Sydney, Daniel Croft is a passionate journalist with an understanding for and experience writing in the technology space. Having studied at Macquarie University, he joined Momentum Media in 2022, writing across a number of publications including Australian Aviation, Cyber Security Connect and Defence Connect. Outside of writing, Daniel has a keen interest in music, and spends his time playing in bands around Sydney.

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Five Eyes and allies allegedly take down BreachForums as threat groups claim responsibility

Infamous dark web marketplace BreachForums has had its website taken down in a cyber attack on its systems, with a pair of threat actors claiming responsibility for the ...

SECURITY • Thu, 18 Apr 2024

EU cyber security label vote pushed back to next month

A vote to decide whether a draft cyber security label allowing major US tech giants to enter EU cloud computing contracts has been delayed a month as deliberation on ...

GOVERNMENT • Wed, 17 Apr 2024

UnitedHealth reports US$872m loss as Congress investigates its industry dominance

UnitedHealth is facing losses not far under US$1 billion in the aftermath of the Change Healthcare cyber attack it suffered earlier this year, according to its latest ...

GOVERNMENT • Wed, 17 Apr 2024

RansomHub pulls trigger on Change Healthcare early, data ‘now for sale’

After almost two months, threat actors have announced that data exfiltrated from Change Healthcare back in February is finally for sale.

SECURITY • Wed, 17 Apr 2024

Communication between CISOs and C-suite lacking when it comes to cyber

While recent cyber crime spikes and increasing awareness have pushed cyber security to be a key concern for entire businesses, there is still a major communications ...

CULTURE • Tue, 16 Apr 2024

Change Healthcare leak countdown begins as RansomHub posts data sample

The leak of Change Healthcare data has, at long last, begun after the RansomHub threat group posted a sample of the allegedly stolen data and initiated a countdown for ...

SECURITY • Tue, 16 Apr 2024

Australian man arrested by AFP for development and sale of ‘Firebird’ RAT

An Australian man and a US-based man have been arrested and are due to face court after findings suggested that they had created and globally distributed a remote access ...

CULTURE • Tue, 16 Apr 2024

Iranian hackers claim Israeli radar hack, send citizens text threats

Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens have reportedly received threatening text messages from an Iranian threat group after it claimed to have breached Israel’s radar ...

SECURITY • Mon, 15 Apr 2024

Second Roku cyber incident affects almost 600k

For the second time this year, streaming service Roku has suffered a security incident, with hackers having been observed gaining access to thousands more customer ...