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Cyber Daily announces return of the Australian Cyber Summit for 2025

Cyber Daily announces return of the Australian Cyber Summit for 2025

Cyber Daily is pleased to announce the launch of the Australian Cyber Summit 2025, featuring a jam-packed agenda with ...

Reporter Mon, 16 Dec 2024
Exclusive: Bondi Markets the latest claimed victim of Australian DDoS campaign

Exclusive: Bondi Markets the latest claimed victim of Australian DDoS campaign

The website for Bondi Markets was allegedly taken down in a DDoS attack, making the organisation the latest victim of a ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 13 Dec 2024
Money mule for cyber criminals sentenced to 18-month jail term

Money mule for cyber criminals sentenced to 18-month jail term

Melbourne man sentenced to jail time and Recognisance Release Order for assisting in laundering the proceeds of cyber ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 13 Dec 2024
Experts respond to Google’s Willow quantum computing breakthrough

Experts respond to Google’s Willow quantum computing breakthrough

From the possible implications for cyber security to the impressive science behind the quantum chip, here’s what the ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 13 Dec 2024
Exclusive: Kiwi telco Compass Communications confirms ransomware attack

Exclusive: Kiwi telco Compass Communications confirms ransomware attack

RA World ransomware gang lists a New Zealand company as a victim and claims to have stolen 250 gigabytes of internal and ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 13 Dec 2024
Interview: Liminal Panda and China’s headstart on vulnerabilities, with CrowdStrike’s Adam Meyers

Interview: Liminal Panda and China’s headstart on vulnerabilities, with CrowdStrike’s Adam Meyers

Chinese state-sponsored actors have become a major concern for Western nations and organisations.

Daniel Croft Thu, 12 Dec 2024
Most Aussie business leaders expect another CrowdStrike-style outage next year

Most Aussie business leaders expect another CrowdStrike-style outage next year

July’s global outage caught most Australian executives off guard, and most think the next one is inevitable.

David Hollingworth Thu, 12 Dec 2024
Exclusive: Medusa claims 852.4GB of data stolen from Ainsworth Game Technology

Exclusive: Medusa claims 852.4GB of data stolen from Ainsworth Game Technology

The Medusa ransomware group has claimed a ransomware attack on an Australia-operated digital slots and gaming machine ...

Daniel Croft Thu, 12 Dec 2024
Global Meta outage affects Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

Global Meta outage affects Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

Meta’s social media platforms suffered a worldwide outage in the early hours of this morning (Thursday, 12 December), ...

Daniel Croft Thu, 12 Dec 2024
Exclusive: Funksec ransomware gang allegedly targets pair of Aussie companies

Exclusive: Funksec ransomware gang allegedly targets pair of Aussie companies

Ransomware operators share data stolen from a West Australian cleaning supplier and ANZ food safety not-for-profit, but ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 12 Dec 2024
Russian state-linked hackers reportedly targeting Ukraine defence contractors

Russian state-linked hackers reportedly targeting Ukraine defence contractors

Ukraine has said that Russian state-linked threat actors have been targeting its defence contractors.

Daniel Croft Wed, 11 Dec 2024
Security researchers warn of active exploitation of Cleo file transfer software

Security researchers warn of active exploitation of Cleo file transfer software

Cleo VLTrader, Cleo Harmony, and Cleo LexiCom are all being actively exploited after an update fails to address known ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 11 Dec 2024
Exclusive: USMC, US DOD personnel data allegedly listed by threat actor

Exclusive: USMC, US DOD personnel data allegedly listed by threat actor

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) has been allegedly breached by a threat actor who claims to have the data of over ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 11 Dec 2024
US Senate passes federal bill making deepfake revenge porn illegal

US Senate passes federal bill making deepfake revenge porn illegal

The US is looking to introduce new legislation that would make the non-consensual publication of AI deepfakes of a ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 11 Dec 2024
US Treasury Department sanctions Chinese firm over ransomware attacks

US Treasury Department sanctions Chinese firm over ransomware attacks

Cyber security firm Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company and one employee targeted over massive 2020 firewall ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 11 Dec 2024
1 in 5 organisations unable to recover data after cyber attack

1 in 5 organisations unable to recover data after cyber attack

Cyber attacks are increasingly crippling organisations, with new research showing that one in five organisations that ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 11 Dec 2024
December Patch Tuesday reveals 70 vulnerabilities

December Patch Tuesday reveals 70 vulnerabilities

Microsoft is addressing 70 vulnerabilities this December 2024 Patch Tuesday, with evidence of in-the-wild exploitation ...

Adam Barnett, Lead Software Engineer, Rapid7 Wed, 11 Dec 2024
Exclusive: KillSec ransomware claims breach on Australian educational support platform

Exclusive: KillSec ransomware claims breach on Australian educational support platform

Threat actors have claimed a ransomware attack on Australian private educational support firm Thanks For the Help (TFTH)

Daniel Croft Tue, 10 Dec 2024
Exclusive: Amazon confirms no incident after threat actor claims 53k accounts leaked

Exclusive: Amazon confirms no incident after threat actor claims 53k accounts leaked

Amazon has confirmed that despite threat actor claims that data was scraped and account details were stolen, there was ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 10 Dec 2024
Google reveals quantum computing breakthrough

Google reveals quantum computing breakthrough

Google’s Willow quantum chip is capable of large-scale error correction at exponential rates and may have proven the ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 10 Dec 2024