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Notorious hacking group ShinyHunters has confirmed that it is working with infamous hacking collective Scattered Spider, ...
Daniel Croft • Wed, 13 Aug 2025
Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett slams Productivity Commission for AI copyright theft proposals
Former environment minister and Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett has spoken out against recommendations made by the ...
SETI Hackathon drives innovation at California’s Allen Telescope Array
The SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in northern California has hosted a three-day international “hackathon” ...
Stephen Kuper • Wed, 13 Aug 2025
Special report: What makes initial access brokers tick?
Initial access brokers are the elite of the hacking world, compromising systems and then selling access to anyone who ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 13 Aug 2025
Australian man under house arrest ordered to send hourly selfies
An NSW man is facing strange bail conditions that require him to send a selfie to NSW Police every hour of the day.
Daniel Croft • Tue, 12 Aug 2025
Marks & Spencer restores click and collect 4 months after cyber attack
UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has finally restored its click and collect service after facing a major cyber ...
Google’s Salesforce instance hit in ShinyHunters cyber attack
Google has confirmed that threat actors successfully breached its corporate Salesforce database and that company data ...
Genea data breach under investigation by class action law firm
Major Australian IVF provider Genea is currently under investigation by leading class action law firm Phi Finney ...
Daniel Croft • Mon, 11 Aug 2025
Major supplier of military and commercial aircraft allegedly hit by Play ransomware
Threat actors have claimed a ransomware attack on a major supplier for the US Navy, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and more, ...
Exclusive: World Leaks ransomware gang claims hack of defence contractor L3Harris
A company in the running to help build the United States’ Golden Dome missile defence system has been impacted by an ...
David Hollingworth • Mon, 11 Aug 2025
WA university forces students to change passcodes following cyber attack
The University of Western Australia (UWA) has forced its students and staff to change their passwords after suffering a ...
Exclusive: Magellan Financial Group investigating ransomware claims
The D4RK4RMY ransomware group claims to have stolen 85 gigabytes of data from a Sydney-based investment firm.
Exclusive: Belmont Christian College investigating ransomware claims
Threat actors have claimed a cyber attack on a NSW Christian school, claiming to have exfiltrated student and employee ...
Daniel Croft • Fri, 08 Aug 2025
Op-Ed: GPT-5’s arrival may mark a level up in bringing humanity down
After teasing it for some time, OpenAI has released its latest iteration of its iconic chatbot, ChatGPT-5.
Exclusive: WA IT services firm Alt Vision listed by PEAR ransomware group
An emerging hacking group claims to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from a West Perth-based company.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 08 Aug 2025
Akira ransomware gang observed exploiting CPU driver to disable security software
Hackers have been caught using a bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver (BYOVD) attack to exploit SonicWall firewall devices
Australian Information Commissioner takes Optus to court over 2022 data breach
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has opened civil proceedings against the telco, Optus, to “uphold ...
NBN selects Amazon’s Project Kuiper to bring low-Earth orbit satellite broadband to Australia
NBN and Amazon have announced an agreement to deliver high-speed, wholesale fixed broadband to customers in parts of ...
Robert Dougherty • Thu, 07 Aug 2025
eSafety Commissioner slams tech giants for not dealing with child sexual abuse material
The Australian eSafety Commissioner has called out a number of technology and social media giants for their lack of ...
Daniel Croft • Thu, 07 Aug 2025
‘Tech bros get all the benefits’: Mixed reactions to Productivity Commission’s AI report
The Productivity Commission’s recent AI report has stirred the industrial relations pot ahead of the Economic Reform ...
Kace O'Neil • Thu, 07 Aug 2025