Powered by MOMENTUMMEDIA
For breaking news and daily updates, subscribe to our newsletter

Cyber Daily News

Exclusive: The Plastic Bag Company falls victim to Sarcoma ransomware attack

Exclusive: The Plastic Bag Company falls victim to Sarcoma ransomware attack

Sydney-based bag manufacturer The Plastic Bag Company suffered a data breach as passports and tax details were published ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 10 Oct 2024
Internet Archive down, claims ‘catastrophic’ data breach impacting 31m

Internet Archive down, claims ‘catastrophic’ data breach impacting 31m

The non-profit digital library responsible for the popular Wayback Machine web archive has been under a distributed ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 10 Oct 2024
Happy Birthday, Russian President: Russian state media hacked on Putin’s birthday

Happy Birthday, Russian President: Russian state media hacked on Putin’s birthday

Ukraine claims to be behind a cyber attack on Russia’s state media company, just in time for Russian President Vladimir ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 09 Oct 2024
ADT suffers second data breach after hackers use stolen credentials

ADT suffers second data breach after hackers use stolen credentials

Home and small business security provider ADT has disclosed that it suffered a second cyber attack in as many months.

Daniel Croft Wed, 09 Oct 2024
Australia’s first standalone Cyber Security Act to make ransom payment reporting mandatory

Australia’s first standalone Cyber Security Act to make ransom payment reporting mandatory

Australia is set to enable mandatory reporting of ransom payments and new standards for smart devices with new ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 09 Oct 2024
Exclusive: West Australian aged-care provider hit by alleged LockBit ransomware attack

Exclusive: West Australian aged-care provider hit by alleged LockBit ransomware attack

Kingsley-based TPG Aged Care has been listed as a victim on LockBit’s leak site, and several internal documents with ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 09 Oct 2024
Patch Tuesday round-up, October 2024

Patch Tuesday round-up, October 2024

October’s Patch Tuesday reveals 118 vulnerabilities, including multiple instances of in-the-wild exploitation, while ...

Adam Barnett, Lead Software Engineer at Rapid7 Wed, 09 Oct 2024
New not-for-profit Australian Cyber Network launches

New not-for-profit Australian Cyber Network launches

The ACN aims to be “a voice for industry, by industry” in the cyber security sector. We talk to its CEO and chair about ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 08 Oct 2024
Qantas customer passports at risk following frequent flyer cyber theft

Qantas customer passports at risk following frequent flyer cyber theft

Qantas has revealed that the passports of at least almost a thousand customers may have been accessed after two ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 08 Oct 2024
Ukrainian national pleads guilty to running Raccoon Infostealer malware operation

Ukrainian national pleads guilty to running Raccoon Infostealer malware operation

Mark Sokolovsky pleaded guilty in a US court this week following his arrest by Dutch authorities in 2022.

David Hollingworth Tue, 08 Oct 2024
American Water disables systems following cyber attack

American Water disables systems following cyber attack

Major US water and wastewater company American Water has revealed that it had shut down a number of its systems ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 08 Oct 2024
AFP continues to work with Thai counterparts to fight scams, organised crime

AFP continues to work with Thai counterparts to fight scams, organised crime

Sharing digital forensics skills and experience is a key part of the 30-year-old law enforcement partnership.

David Hollingworth Tue, 08 Oct 2024
AUSCERT announces tabletop incident response exercise

AUSCERT announces tabletop incident response exercise

The new Tabletop Exercise Service aims to provide businesses with the “muscle memory” to handle cyber security incidents

David Hollingworth Tue, 08 Oct 2024
Data of every Dutch police officer compromised in suspected state-sponsored cyber attack

Data of every Dutch police officer compromised in suspected state-sponsored cyber attack

The Dutch National Police has disclosed a cyber attack that has compromised the data of all police officers, with ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 08 Oct 2024
NSW government launches Digital Strategy roadmap

NSW government launches Digital Strategy roadmap

The new roadmap tracks five key missions: accessibility, productivity, trust, resilience, and digital skills.

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Cyber security remains a top focus for Australian businesses, but budgets are a challenge

Cyber security remains a top focus for Australian businesses, but budgets are a challenge

Datacom’s 5th Annual Cloud Report reveals that a lack of money is standing in the way of cyber security uplift.

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Outlast developer says production slowed by cyber attack, 1.8TB reportedly stolen

Outlast developer says production slowed by cyber attack, 1.8TB reportedly stolen

The developers behind the Outlast video game series have revealed that they suffered a cyber attack and that data was ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager

Ivanti has updated a May 2024 security advisory, warning that an “unrestricted file upload vulnerability” has been ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Oct 2024
NSW IPC reports government, councils and universities suffered 52 data breaches in 7 months

NSW IPC reports government, councils and universities suffered 52 data breaches in 7 months

NSW universities, government agencies, and councils collectively reported 52 data breaches in the seven months ending in ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Data of Australian defence personnel up for auction via real-time bidding advertising platforms

Data of Australian defence personnel up for auction via real-time bidding advertising platforms

The live location data – and much more – of Australians is shared almost 450 times a day on a raft of digital ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Oct 2024