swiftly. The report also points to researchers estimating that the average ransom demand increased by 33 per cent since Q4 2019 to nearly $150,000 in Q1 2020. On the higher end, Shipley revealed some entities are seeking out millions of dollars. “I...

next 12 months and beyond, the total value of deals across blockchain technology companies will increase significantly. In 2019, we saw investments in blockchain across the Asia-Pacific increase by 83.9 per cent, taking the total market value to $523.8...

provider in Israel. The report warned that Iran’s ransomware campaign appears to be on the brink of global expansion. In 2019, a report prepared by researchers at the US giant Microsoft Corporation said that Iranian hackers are working to infiltrate...

cyber-enabled warfare on the modern body politic that upon the release of the French government’s Military Cyber Strategy in 2019, France’s Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly argued that already international “cyber warfare has begun”. Indeed,...

transactions from the banking user’s legitimate device.” Microsoft released a patch for the nine-year-old loophole in 2019. [Related: Conti emerges as growing cyber threat]

the police cyber prevent network of students as young as nine deploying DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks from 2019 to 2020. A new UK initiative to divert young people away from criminality has been launched after cyber attacks designed to...

but visible in NFTs Money laundering has long been an issue in the fine art world, and it’s not hard to see why. As one 2019 article from the National Law Review points out, art pieces like paintings are easy to move, have relatively subjective prices,...

most common cyber crime in 2020, with 240,000 victims leading to a loss of US$50 million – this is two times more than in 2019, and 10 times higher than in 2018. Phishing is causing havoc like never before, and this goes to show that email protection is...

environments. To satisfy growing customer demands across Australia and New Zealand, F5 expanded its global footprint in 2019 by deploying a regional point of presence in Sydney, and over the past several years, F5 has transformed its business and...

practitioners in the lead-up to the census to test the system for vulnerabilities with DDoS attacks of their own. In 2019, Auth0 launched a private bug bounty program to further reinforce its emphasis on security and ensure that its customers are...

Android apps to collect personal and financial information. xHelper - A malicious application seen in the wild since March 2019, used for downloading other malicious apps and display advertisement. The application can hide itself from the user and...

and power generation throughout Kazakhstan. Dragos is aware of targeted operations that started during the third quarter of 2019 and have intermittently continued throughout 2021. ERYTHRITE is an activity group that broadly targets organisations in the...

breach, but how did it impact trust in the ANU? The breach wasn’t publicly acknowledged until October 2018, by which time 2019 enrolments were locked in. And the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 made it difficult to understand...

solutions that enable affiliate threat actor groups to target mobile devices without the need for homegrown resources. In 2019, Pegasus was used to leverage WhatsApp and infect more than 1,400 user devices, from senior government officials to...

our homes, in offices, in factories and warehouses. Ericsson estimates there were 11 billion connected devices worldwide in 2019, and it expects the number to reach 25 billion by the end of 2025. Our homes now have connected security cameras, connected...

were submitted for the second round of the ADFCGP program, of which 285 have commenced participation. ADFCGP was launched in 2019, with the final intake expected at the end of 2023. The 12-month online program is delivered by the Joint Cyber Directorate...

for adaptive applications. To satisfy the growing demand in Australia and New Zealand, F5 expanded its global footprint in 2019 by deploying a regional point of presence (PoP) in Sydney. Over the past several years, F5 has transformed its business and...

since the 1980s to expedite the digital process, rather than manually sharing, entering and analysing data. Fast forward to 2019, the Australian federal government created a legislation called the Consumer Data Right (CDR), known as “open banking” in...

for Australian governments and public sector agencies, enabling them to improve services for citizens around the country. In 2019, AWS and DTA signed an agreement to enable Australian federal, state, and territory agencies and departments, as well as...

purchasing processes for agencies and providing more opportunities to AWS partners to work with government customers. In 2019, AWS and DTA signed an agreement to enable Australian federal, state, and territory agencies and departments, as well as public...