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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
Exclusive: Source code potentially compromised in Aussie game dev data breach

Exclusive: Source code potentially compromised in Aussie game dev data breach

Direwolf ransomware group claims to have struck Adelaide-based Mighty Kingdom, with hundreds of code repositories for ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Report: AI-driven disclosures are collapsing the window for defenders to patch vulnerabilities

Report: AI-driven disclosures are collapsing the window for defenders to patch vulnerabilities

Rapid7 warns that soaring vulnerability volumes and faster weaponisation are rendering traditional patching cycles ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Weekend Mastercard outage resolved, but is customer trust at risk?

Weekend Mastercard outage resolved, but is customer trust at risk?

Major payment and technology firm Mastercard has announced that it has restored systems following outages over the ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Google’s parent company readies $5bn Kangaroo bond for Aussie data centre rollout

Google’s parent company readies $5bn Kangaroo bond for Aussie data centre rollout

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is preparing to raise a $5 billion Kangaroo bond as part of its Down Under data ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Report: Cost of a cyber incident rises by 219% year on year

Report: Cost of a cyber incident rises by 219% year on year

More than two-thirds of respondents to a recent MinterEllison survey said their business was the target of a cyber ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Exclusive: SIA Medical Centre confirms it is investigating cyber incident involving patient data

Exclusive: SIA Medical Centre confirms it is investigating cyber incident involving patient data

A Victorian medical centre is responding to a ransomware incident after the Rhysida cyber extortion group claimed to ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Patient data potentially compromised in alleged dental clinic data breach

Exclusive: Patient data potentially compromised in alleged dental clinic data breach

INC Ransom cyber extortion group shares patient X-rays, specialist reports, and correspondence on the dark web after ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 18 Aug 2026
France suffers from unprecedented cyber attack wave, with one hacker supposedly behind it all

France suffers from unprecedented cyber attack wave, with one hacker supposedly behind it all

France has confirmed an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks impacting a number of government agencies and private-sector ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Report: AI reasoning gains fail to eliminate racial and gender bias in medical research

Report: AI reasoning gains fail to eliminate racial and gender bias in medical research

Flinders University researchers found that next-generation reasoning models continued to reproduce demographic ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Westpac teases development of a new agentic AI ecosystem

Westpac teases development of a new agentic AI ecosystem

Big four bank Westpac has announced it is working on a new agentic ecosystem to assist in ramping up the company’s ...

Daniel Croft Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Hack on! Private US companies given presidential go-ahead to target cyber criminals

Hack on! Private US companies given presidential go-ahead to target cyber criminals

A Trump memorandum directing private sector companies to target transnational criminal organisations is a “pretty big ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Aussie kidswear brand launches investigation following hacker claims

Exclusive: Aussie kidswear brand launches investigation following hacker claims

An Australian kidswear retailer has confirmed that it is aware of claims of a cyber incident and has subsequently ...

Daniel Croft Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Concerns raised about new military phone-cracking tech proposed for NSW Police Force

Concerns raised about new military phone-cracking tech proposed for NSW Police Force

Senator David Shoebridge has called out the introduction of new technology systems and digital evidence management to ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Hello, who’s this? RingCentral discloses data breach in wake of ShinyHunters hack claims

Hello, who’s this? RingCentral discloses data breach in wake of ShinyHunters hack claims

At least 1.6 million customers could be impacted by a hack after cyber extortionists publish more than 600 gigabytes of ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 17 Aug 2026
CrowdStrike expands Project QuiltWorks to bring AI protection to SMBs

CrowdStrike expands Project QuiltWorks to bring AI protection to SMBs

The cyber security company is extending its AI security initiative through distributors, cloud marketplaces, and MSPs.

David Hollingworth Mon, 17 Aug 2026