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Australian lenders turn to cross-industry intelligence as AI drives uptick in financial fraud

Australian lenders turn to cross-industry intelligence as AI drives uptick in financial fraud

Equifax Australia and the Australian Finance Industry Association join forces to strengthen fraud prevention as lenders ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Patch now! Hackers targeting critical vulnerability in AI engineering platform MLflow

Patch now! Hackers targeting critical vulnerability in AI engineering platform MLflow

Organisations using the popular open-source AI tool MLflow are urged to prioritise patching and investigate potential ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Westco Motors Cairns suffers alleged ransomware attack

Exclusive: Westco Motors Cairns suffers alleged ransomware attack

The Storm hacking group has posted details of an Aussie car dealership; customer invoices, emails, and phone numbers ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Data and AI firm Alation discloses cyber incident

Data and AI firm Alation discloses cyber incident

Silicon Valley AI data giant Alation has confirmed a cyber incident on its network, following its report of an ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Shop now? Banking malware campaign posing as Woolworths active in Australia

Shop now? Banking malware campaign posing as Woolworths active in Australia

Woolies and other trusted brands are being used to spread an Android Trojan that can access bank accounts, read SMSes, ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Patch now! Active exploitation of critical GitLab vulnerability underway

Patch now! Active exploitation of critical GitLab vulnerability underway

Just days after the disclosure of the almost-perfect-10 vulnerability, CVE-2026-19478, hackers are already on the ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 21 Aug 2026
The industry speaks: Scam Awareness Week 2026

The industry speaks: Scam Awareness Week 2026

The theme for this year’s Scam Awareness Week – which runs from 24 to 28 August – is “No one’s just a number”, and ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Australia calls cyber experts to serve in new Defence Cyber Reserve Force

Australia calls cyber experts to serve in new Defence Cyber Reserve Force

Experienced Australian cyber professionals are being encouraged to bring their skills into Defence under a new Cyber ...

Stephen Kuper Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Exclusive: RAM maker Kingston Technology investigating ransomware claims

Exclusive: RAM maker Kingston Technology investigating ransomware claims

Everest ransomware group claims hack of a computer storage firm; 138 gigabytes of APAC marketing material soon to be ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Pay or leak: ShinyHunters delivers ultimatum to Logitech

Pay or leak: ShinyHunters delivers ultimatum to Logitech

Prolific cyber extortion group ShinyHunters promises “several (annoying) digital problems” for the computer hardware ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
OpenAI outage impacts logins, ChatGPT and APIs

OpenAI outage impacts logins, ChatGPT and APIs

OpenAI has confirmed an outage impacting its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot service, which prevented users from logging ...

Daniel Croft Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Op-Ed: Australian AI agents need expiration dates, not just permissions

Op-Ed: Australian AI agents need expiration dates, not just permissions

Australia’s security conversation is moving from whether organisations will deploy AI agents to how those agents should ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Ransomware newcomers list South Australia’s Ramsey Bros as hacking victim

Exclusive: Ransomware newcomers list South Australia’s Ramsey Bros as hacking victim

The Storm ransomware group claims to have hacked an Australian farm machinery supplier and has allegedly published ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
High alert! Aussie cyber agency warns of active exploitation of N-able N-central vulnerability

High alert! Aussie cyber agency warns of active exploitation of N-able N-central vulnerability

Hackers are actively targeting Australian organisations using a popular remote monitoring and management platform, the ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Faulty towers: Quest hotel chain discloses third-party customer data breach

Faulty towers: Quest hotel chain discloses third-party customer data breach

Customers of an Australian hotel apartment chain have been informed that a supply chain hack has compromised their ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
US charges 17 Iranian nationals over ‘massive cyber theft campaign’

US charges 17 Iranian nationals over ‘massive cyber theft campaign’

The Department of Justice has charged members of an Iran-based company over a hacking campaign that targeted academics ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Google confirms outage impacting Drive users in Australia and New Zealand

Google confirms outage impacting Drive users in Australia and New Zealand

Google has confirmed outages and slowness impacting users of its Google Drive service in Australia and New Zealand.

Daniel Croft Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Op-Ed: OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach a warning shot for every boardroom

Op-Ed: OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach a warning shot for every boardroom

Artificial intelligence has moved beyond assisting cyber attackers and is now operating within the attack chain itself

Raymond Schippers, Lead Technologist – ANZ at Check Point Software Technologies Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Australia, Thailand to strengthen cooperation on fighting cyber crime

Australia, Thailand to strengthen cooperation on fighting cyber crime

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul have released a joint statement on combating ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Allianz outlines how the data centre boom will change the insurance game

Allianz outlines how the data centre boom will change the insurance game

The AI boom has had a number of carry-on effects. Booming AI development means booming data centre investment, and in ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 19 Aug 2026