Cyber Daily News
Busted! Conti ransomware member cops 4-year prison term
A Ukrainian national is sentenced for wire fraud in relation to cyber crimes that netted more than US$150 million.
Patch now! Cisco warns of state and criminal hackers targeting a pair of Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities
The Russian Sandworm group and the Qilin ransomware gang are among several threat actors exploiting bugs in Cisco’s FMC ...
Op-Ed: Sovereign encryption is becoming a front-line defence capability
Australian organisations have four months left to produce a plan for their transition to post-quantum cryptography.
Hacked! Surfshark discloses unauthorised access to internal test server
Popular VPN provider says no customer data impacted after human error exposes internal engineering environment.
Cyber Wardens program to shut down as government funding ends
The COSBOA CEO says lessons learnt from the program “will help shape what comes next” as she celebrates assisting 23,150 ...
Exclusive: Not-for-profit Way Forward suspends payments following external cyber incident
An Australian charity supporting those in financial hardship has disclosed a third-party cyber incident impacting its ...
Multiple hardware crypto wallet providers warn of phishing emails after third-party incident
Trezor and BitBox are among the companies warning of scam emails after their newsletter provider was allegedly ...
Aussie law firm investigating potential for a class action targeting social media giant Meta
Carter Capner Law’s director, Peter Carter, says “the social media fightback has begun” as his firm looks to begin legal ...
Report: Data exposure in the financial services sector almost doubles year on year
Despite surging exposure figures, 66 per cent of boards expect their CISOs to guarantee that breaches will not happen.
Boomtown: NVIDIA targets 2GW Australian AI infrastructure buildout by 2027
NVIDIA is working with Australian cloud and AI infrastructure providers on a buildout of up to two gigawatts by 2027, as ...
Act now! Aussie cyber agency warns of active exploitation of Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source vulnerability
The ACSC has said there is a “substantial number of potentially vulnerable instances within the Australian economy”.
Explainer: Why driver’s licences are such a hot cyber criminal commodity
ThreatLocker’s Danny Jenkins explains why scans of identity documents such as driver’s licences are a “master key” to ...
Patch now! Hackers are targeting yet another N-able N-central vulnerability
CVE-2026-86218 is a perfect-10 vulnerability that was only disclosed this month, and exploitation is underway.
Digital duty of care: Experts call legislation ‘long overdue’ as White House issues ‘unequivocal’ warning
Academics welcome the government’s proposed opt-out/opt-in legislation, as Minister for Communications palms off Trump ...
Venezuela could become test case for Chinese AI surveillance, report warns
A new Australian Strategic Policy Institute report warns Venezuela could become one of the first countries outside China ...
Exclusive: The Gentlemen strikes Sharp Office as company confirms incident investigation
A ransomware group claims to have hacked a Broadmeadow-based office technology supplier that works with Newcastle ...
Op-Ed: Microsoft September Patch Tuesday reveals 999 vulnerabilities
Microsoft is publishing 974 own-product vulnerabilities on September 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 723 vulnerabilities ...
Report: Compromised identities a key driver of ransomware attacks across education sector
Sophos has found that identity-based techniques were involved in 85 per cent of ransomware attacks against education ...
Exclusive: Verve Portraits data allegedly compromised by Settra ransomware attack
Hackers claim to have a “COMPLETE archive of photo studio network operations” belonging to a Sydney-based photography ...
Australia’s proposed digital duty of care bill ‘a global reckoning coming for big tech’, says minister
Anthony Albanese and Anika Wells announce details of new social media laws, promising platforms could face fines up to ...