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SSS Australia falls victim to Hunters International ransomware gang
Hunters International posts nearly 70 gigabytes of data, totalling more than 60,000 individual files, belonging to an ...
Australians increasingly concerned over impact of deepfakes on elections
Deepfakes and other AI-powered technologies are front of mind in this “critical election year”.
Australia records 388% quarter-on-quarter jump in compromised accounts
A staggering 1.8 million Australian user accounts have been leaked in data breaches in the first three months of 2024.
TikTok now has 12 months to be divested from its Chinese owner or face total US ban
The US Senate has passed new TikTok legislation as a part of a long-awaited US$95 billion foreign aid package.
Ring fined US$5.6m by US FTC over poor security and spying incidents
The Federal Trade Commission has formally charged Amazon’s smart doorbell subsidiary for “compromising its customers’ ...
Australian Federal Police on the hunt for new CISO
The AFP is advertising for a new chief information security officer to help shape its Cyber Security Strategy.
Microsoft and The Coca-Cola Company announce 5-year cloud, AI partnership
Like the old ad campaign says: everything’s better with a Coke – even generative artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud ...
US Treasury sanctions Iranian cyber actors over government attacks
Four Iranian individuals were sanctioned and indicted and two companies sanctioned over attacks on more than a dozen US ...
Exclusive: BlackSuit ransomware gang claims hack on Octapharma Plasma
Donor details, lab data, passports, and personal information have all been allegedly compromised in the US Octapharma ...
Akira ransomware made US$42m in ransoms before its first birthday
International cyber agencies have banded together to release a new advisory on an infamous cyber gang after it reeled in ...
Palo Alto’s Unit 42 team reveals new wave of PAN-OS firewall hack attempts
PAN-OS firewalls are facing an “increasing number of attacks”, though so far, signs of active command execution are rare
UnitedHealth CEO to discuss cyber attack before US House subcommittee
The chief executive of UnitedHealth is set to testify before a US House subcommittee regarding the Change Healthcare ...
Makers of CrushFTP file transfer tool urge users to upgrade ‘ASAP’
Hackers are likely already taking advantage of a vulnerability in a particular version of the file transfer application
Penten awards $466,840 contract to archTIS for Australian national security project
Aussie cyber technology company Penten gives archTIS the nod on a project for an unnamed Australian national security ...
UnitedHealth says ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans affected in breach
A “substantial proportion” of Americans may have been impacted by the Change Healthcare breach, according to parent ...
Australia v Musk: War of words erupts between politicians and Musk over eSafety ruling
Aussie politicians voice their ire over X’s stance on the church stabbing video, while Elon Musk targets Prime Minister ...
Victorian councils’ call service affected by OracleCMS breach
Several Victorian councils have revealed that their after-hours call services are down following the OracleCMS breach ...
Stealthy new banking malware spotted targeting Korean users
Novel SoumniBot malware takes advantage of Android manifest bugs to avoid detection.
Australia v Musk: X boss to take on Australia’s eSafety Commissioner
Elon Musk promises a looming court battle over takedown notices of Sydney church stabbing videos.
UN agency ransomware attack claimed by 8Base
Threat actors have claimed a cyber attack on the IT systems of the United Nations (UN), which is now investigating the ...