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Lawyers express frustration over year-old OAIC investigation into Latitude hack

Lawyers express frustration over year-old OAIC investigation into Latitude hack

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and its New Zealand counterpart are yet to release any ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 10 May 2024
Poland provides more details of APT28 government attacks

Poland provides more details of APT28 government attacks

Poland has called out Russian state-sponsored hackers, claiming that they targeted a number of government networks in a ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 10 May 2024
Dell warns of data breach affecting 49m customers

Dell warns of data breach affecting 49m customers

The computing giant has sent emails to its customers warning of a breach affecting names, addresses, and PC hardware ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 10 May 2024
OpenAI developing AI-generated image detector

OpenAI developing AI-generated image detector

OpenAI has announced that it is developing a tool to detect images that have been generated using its own AI image ...

Daniel Croft Thu, 09 May 2024
Exclusive: EMBARGO ransomware gang publishes Firstmac customer data

Exclusive: EMBARGO ransomware gang publishes Firstmac customer data

Firstmac’s hackers have published customer transaction details, addresses, loan data, and more in a 500-gigabyte data ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 09 May 2024
800k affected after University System of Georgia breached in MOVEit attack

800k affected after University System of Georgia breached in MOVEit attack

The University System of Georgia (USG) has revealed the cyber attack it suffered last year affected 800,000 people.

Daniel Croft Thu, 09 May 2024
Report: Australian businesses less likely to report ransomware attacks

Report: Australian businesses less likely to report ransomware attacks

One in 10 Australian organisations hit by ransomware attacks do not report the incident.

David Hollingworth Thu, 09 May 2024
Patient data published following INC Ransom attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway

Patient data published following INC Ransom attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway

The INC Ransom ransomware gang has leaked a massive data set – including children’s mental health records – onto its ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 09 May 2024
Major US private healthcare organisation goes offline after ‘cyber security event’

Major US private healthcare organisation goes offline after ‘cyber security event’

US private healthcare company Ascension has taken some of its systems offline after it suffered a cyber attack.

Daniel Croft Thu, 09 May 2024
Vectra AI takes aim at threat actors exploiting GenAI vulnerabilities

Vectra AI takes aim at threat actors exploiting GenAI vulnerabilities

As businesses face new vulnerabilities arising from the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, ...

Liam Garman Wed, 08 May 2024
CrowdStrike announces Falcon for Defender

CrowdStrike announces Falcon for Defender

The new security tool from CrowdStrike is designed to work side by side with Microsoft Defender.

David Hollingworth Wed, 08 May 2024
Why remote working is an emerging threat vector

Why remote working is an emerging threat vector

Remote and hybrid working arrangements have given rise to new threat vectors, according to an Australian cyber security ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 08 May 2024
UK Defence Secretary shares MOD cyber attack details

UK Defence Secretary shares MOD cyber attack details

New details have emerged regarding the attack on the UK Ministry of Defence overnight, as affected personnel are ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 08 May 2024
Cyber attack ruled out in UniSuper outage

Cyber attack ruled out in UniSuper outage

Google Cloud admits to “inadvertent misconfiguration” leading to disruption of the Australian superannuation firm’s ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 08 May 2024
NRS Healthcare struck by RansomHub cyber attack

NRS Healthcare struck by RansomHub cyber attack

A ransomware attack has disrupted a UK healthcare equipment provider’s operations and taken some services offline.

David Hollingworth Wed, 08 May 2024
Senator James Paterson responds to IPAC breach, calls for sanctions against APT31

Senator James Paterson responds to IPAC breach, calls for sanctions against APT31

Shadow cyber security minister James Paterson has responded to the news that six Australian senators and members of ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 08 May 2024
Australia joins US, UK governments in sanctioning LockBit hacker

Australia joins US, UK governments in sanctioning LockBit hacker

Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev has been named as ransomware mastermind, with a US$10 million bounty placed on his arrest.

David Hollingworth Wed, 08 May 2024
6 Australian senators, MPs confirm being targeted by APT31 in IPAC cyber attack

6 Australian senators, MPs confirm being targeted by APT31 in IPAC cyber attack

Until this point, the senators and MPs affected had been kept in the dark.

Daniel Croft Tue, 07 May 2024
DragonForce ransomware gang posts nearly 300GB of data belonging to Aussizz Group

DragonForce ransomware gang posts nearly 300GB of data belonging to Aussizz Group

An Australian immigration consultancy has fallen victim to the DragonForce ransomware gang, with hundreds of student ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 07 May 2024
‘Seeing is no longer believing’: McAfee, Intel partner to improve Deepfake Detector

‘Seeing is no longer believing’: McAfee, Intel partner to improve Deepfake Detector

The two companies have partnered to enhance McAfee’s Deepfake Detector, using Intel’s Core Ultra processor NPU to ...

Liam Garman Tue, 07 May 2024