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Exclusive: Hacker uses Productivity Commission breach to bully journos

Exclusive: Hacker uses Productivity Commission breach to bully journos

The Australian Productivity Commission has confirmed an incident which saw emails sent out from its noreply email that ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 16 Jun 2026
Exclusive: Mackay Sugar cyber attack claimed by The Gentlemen ransomware

Exclusive: Mackay Sugar cyber attack claimed by The Gentlemen ransomware

The cyber attack on major Australian sugar manufacturer Mackay Sugar has now been claimed by an infamous ransomware ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 16 Jun 2026
Exclusive: Australian Medical Council denies ransomware attack in wake of false claim

Exclusive: Australian Medical Council denies ransomware attack in wake of false claim

The ThreeAM ransomware operation claims it hacked the healthcare standards body – but it only has data belonging to a ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 16 Jun 2026
ADF’s Cyber Command to take part in Exercise Austral Shield

ADF’s Cyber Command to take part in Exercise Austral Shield

Defence aims to demonstrate its capacity for all arms to cooperate with state and federal agencies in a July exercise.

David Hollingworth Tue, 16 Jun 2026
CrowdStrike targets AI identity risks with new continuous authorisation capability

CrowdStrike targets AI identity risks with new continuous authorisation capability

Cyber security firm CrowdStrike says traditional access controls are no longer fit for autonomous AI agents.

David Hollingworth Tue, 16 Jun 2026
Exclusive: Keylend warns of phishing incident following single account breach

Exclusive: Keylend warns of phishing incident following single account breach

Australian mortgage broker Keylend has disclosed a data breach incident in which unauthorised access led to phishing ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 16 Jun 2026
Taxed! EOFY a perfect opportunity for scammers, banks and experts warn

Taxed! EOFY a perfect opportunity for scammers, banks and experts warn

The end of the financial year is a juicy target for scammers and other cyber criminals; here’s what you and your ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 16 Jun 2026
Bunnings customers will soon be able to shop through Google AI Mode

Bunnings customers will soon be able to shop through Google AI Mode

Australian hardware retailer Bunnings Warehouse is set to become one of the first retailers in the country to sell ...

Daniel Croft Mon, 15 Jun 2026
OAIC finds American Express failed to protect customer data from insider access risks

OAIC finds American Express failed to protect customer data from insider access risks

The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found that American Express Australia breached privacy law by failing to ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 15 Jun 2026
4 major Iranian banks suffer cyber attack, no customer data impacted

4 major Iranian banks suffer cyber attack, no customer data impacted

Four major Iranian banks have been impacted by a cyber attack, according to the nation’s banking coordination council.

Daniel Croft Mon, 15 Jun 2026
Exclusive: More than 16k customers compromised after alleged Needlework Tours hack

Exclusive: More than 16k customers compromised after alleged Needlework Tours hack

Names, addresses, phone numbers, and potentially passport details were shared with multiple members of a popular hacking ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 15 Jun 2026
AFP to tackle serious online harms and cyber crime at Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group meeting

AFP to tackle serious online harms and cyber crime at Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group meeting

Members of the Five Eyes alliance will meet in London this week to discuss the challenges of combating online harms in ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 15 Jun 2026
Australia’s Department of Parliamentary Services has only ‘partly effective’ cyber security stature, audit finds

Australia’s Department of Parliamentary Services has only ‘partly effective’ cyber security stature, audit finds

DPS says it will “address critical cyber, information security and operational resilience risks” in the wake of ANAO ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 15 Jun 2026
Exclusive: One Nation blames ‘fearful Labor goons’ for DDoS site crash

Exclusive: One Nation blames ‘fearful Labor goons’ for DDoS site crash

Pauline Hanson’s popularity is surging, and so was the malicious traffic targeting One Nation’s donation page today (12 ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 12 Jun 2026
Westpac’s AI use will see the bank shift to a ‘digital-first service’

Westpac’s AI use will see the bank shift to a ‘digital-first service’

Big four Aussie bank Westpac has announced that it will be implementing AI into its core workflows.

Daniel Croft Fri, 12 Jun 2026
Lloyds Bank to fight cyber crime with agentic AI

Lloyds Bank to fight cyber crime with agentic AI

Major British bank Lloyds Banking Group has announced that it will be launching new agentic AI features to combat cyber ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 12 Jun 2026
Takedown! AFP helps dismantle alleged $542m cyber crime money laundering network

Takedown! AFP helps dismantle alleged $542m cyber crime money laundering network

Australian investigators have helped disrupt an alleged international money laundering operation accused of processing ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 12 Jun 2026
Alert! Experts concerned over perfect 10 Ivanti Sentry vulnerability, and hackers are already all over it

Alert! Experts concerned over perfect 10 Ivanti Sentry vulnerability, and hackers are already all over it

CVE-2026-10520 is looking like a nightmare for network defenders: an OS Command Injection vulnerability that could lead ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 12 Jun 2026
Exclusive: Ochre Health confirms patient data from its Tuggeranong clinic potentially compromised

Exclusive: Ochre Health confirms patient data from its Tuggeranong clinic potentially compromised

Threat actor 2019 claimed to have breached the data of more than 25,000 patients via a third-party platform – and it’s ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 12 Jun 2026
CrowdStrike joins OpenID Foundation and IDPro to push real-time AI-era access security

CrowdStrike joins OpenID Foundation and IDPro to push real-time AI-era access security

The cyber security firm has joined two of the world’s leading identity organisations as it seeks to accelerate industry ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 12 Jun 2026