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Children continue to be a focus of cyber safety, with the Australian Federal Police being the latest organisation to address the issue.
David Hollingworth • Wed, 15 Oct 2025
Online scammers targeting flood victims in Western Australia
A Facebook scam is circulating in Western Australia, targeting victims of recent catastrophic floods in the state.
David Hollingworth • Tue, 24 Jan 2023
New Android malware straddles the line between banking Trojan and spyware
Security researchers have uncovered a disturbing new piece of Android banking malware with some very expanded capabilities.
Chinese hackers may be taking advantage of a FortiOS vulnerability
Security researchers have uncovered threat actors taking advantage of a reported zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 23 Jan 2023
Ad fraud scheme affecting over 10m devices taken down
A massive ad fraud campaign that took advantage of over 10 million devices, particularly iOS ones, was recently discovered and dismantled by researchers at HUMAN ...
David Hollingworth • Fri, 20 Jan 2023
Unemployment scams on the rise as layoffs increased in 2022
Following a year of rising layoffs, particularly in the tech industry, scammers have turned to luring victims with fake employment offers.
David Hollingworth • Thu, 19 Jan 2023
Pro-Russian hackers attempt to take down Ukrainian news agency
Hackers apparently attached to the Sandworm hacking group have tried to take the Ukrainian National News Agency — also known as Ukrinform — offline.
Inside NoName057(16): What makes a pro-Russian hacking group tick?
The war in Ukraine has seen an increase in hacking and cyber crime all over the globe, but nowhere has it been more prevalent than against those countries explicitly ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 18 Jan 2023
Scammers target Russian Telegram users afraid of conscription
Amid rumours of another wave of military mobilisations to bolster the frontlines in Russia’s war against Ukraine, those afraid of being called up are being taken ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 17 Jan 2023
Elon Musk-based crypto scams drop on YouTube
There’s an old adage that says that if something looks too good to be true, it rarely is. And yet this isn’t stopping people from signing up to get scammed out of their ...
David Hollingworth • Mon, 16 Jan 2023
Hack a Tesla, win a Tesla at the next Pwn2Own event
The next Pwn2Own hacking event is coming to the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, running between 22–24March this year — and two Teslas will be up for grabs.
New myGov email refund scam circulating in Australia
Fraudsters are using fake myGov emails to target vulnerable Australians following the Christmas holidays.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 13 Jan 2023
Trio behind major Aussie hack could walk free from prison
Three cyber criminals responsible for a hack impacting 1,800 South Australians may walk free.
Daniel Croft • Fri, 06 Jan 2023
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