Russian military aggression, both directly in their territories and indirectly through cyber and other attacks. In October 2019, the government of Georgia, alongside international partners including the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), called...

Meituan were fined $2.75 billion and $527 million, respectively, in 2021. Alibaba's fine equated to about 4 per cent of its 2019 domestic sales, while Meituan's was equivalent to 3 per cent of its 2020 domestic sales. The CAC outlined that Didi had...

The US Treasury Department sanctioned three North Korean hacking groups (Lazarus Group, BlueNoroff, and Andariel) in 2019 for sending stolen financial assets to the North Korean government. Previously, the US government outlined that the various tactics...

in organisations considered to be of strategic interest to Beijing. Those targeted for “credential phishing” since 2019 include the International Federation for Human Rights, Amnesty International, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, Radio Free...

Entrust had yet to bend to LockBit's demands. The LockBit gang, whose malware of the same name was first detected in 2019, has become one of the more prolific threat groups in the growing and evolving ransomware scenes. DDoS campaigns are designed to...

breach, according to Sophos researchers, which has led to an "attack, change, attack, change" cycle, a trend observed since 2019. Half of (49 per cent) of the surveyed respondents are planning to make changes in the next six months due to experiencing...

created by a Turkish-speaking entity called Nitrokod. The campaign has claimed roughly 111,000 victims in 11 countries since 2019, according to the CPR team, including Australia. The campaign drops malware from free software available on popular...

flight delays after the third-party system used for check-ins and boarding was infiltrated. A similar instance happened in 2019, when the personal data of more than 120,000 Air New Zealand frequent flyer customers was compromised after two staff members...

keeping pace with the growth rate of cyber crime". "We've seen exponential growth in cyber crime, year on year, since about 2019. "We've got about 30,000 people — which is a huge amount of people — over the next four years that we're going to need to...

the business premises. Physical site security is equally as vital as cyber security for securing your data. According to the 2019 Verizon report, physical theft was identified as one of the nine basic patterns of security incidents and data breaches,...

in order to distract the Russian government from a counteroffensive in the country’s north. The researcher also evidenced a 2019 wargame in which participants — “bikini” trolls — were used to “lure” soldiers into dates and away from their post.

Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has reported zero-day vulnerabilities associated with Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019. Microsoft has published a list of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), assigned to: CVE-2022-41082 – remote code...

(ASIO) anticipates espionage will supplant terrorism as Australia’s principal security threat over the next five years. In 2019, a leading Australian biotechnology company lost thousands of documents containing highly sensitive intellectual property...

2023. JOSEPH LAMREPORTER Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand. Share this article...

while the demand for counterterror and counterinsurgency operations decreases globally. “On a site visit to Afghanistan in 2019, former Special Operations Command commander General Richard Clarke noted that 60 per cent of the special operations...

the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The fine is the result of a Facebook breach that occurred in 2018 and 2019 that saw the data of 530 million Facebook users posted online. Facebook initially said that the data was old and that it had...

resources and networking events to support those looking for a career in the cyber sector. Fortem Australia was founded in 2019, with the organisation’s co-founder John Bale also co-founding Soldier On, a leading Australian veteran wellbeing charity....

Bauder has shared QAnon conspiracy theories, and also believes the official accounts of the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019 aren’t what really happened. He started the Freedom Convoy because God told him too and believes that Canadian Prime...

an American oil pipeline was hit by a ransomware attack that took operations offline before a ransom could be paid, and in 2019, a hacker got into the water supply system of a city in Florida and boosted sodium hydroxide concentration to dangerous...

the hackers said. The hackers are believed to be Russian based and connected to the REvil ransomware group, which formed in 2019 and only targets entities outside of its home country. In the past, REvil has targeted Apple, Donald Trump, and Lady Gaga...