NSO’s CEO and chief operating officer at the time that Pegasus was used to infect the devices of 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019, was also deposed. According to WhatsApp’s filing, he admitted “the actual process for installing Pegasus through WhatsApp was...

Call, a global initiative to limit the spread of extremist and terrorist content online. The Call is named after a 2019 terrorist attack that took place in the New Zealand city of Christchurch that saw 51 people murdered. The attack was streamed live...

of developing “safe and beneficial artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity”, said the company. However, in 2019, prior to the release of the company’s AI chatbot ChatGPT, the company created a for-profit subsidiary to raise funding, having...

and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program, was established in the Secure and Trusted Communications Act 2019. The additional funding has been heavily pushed by FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel, who wrote to Congress on 2 December saying...

place with four per cent of all attacks. This remote access Trojan has been used for keylogging and info-stealing since 2019 and is clearly still a popular tool among hackers. Initial access Systems lacking multifactor authentication were the main cause...

stolen data as proof. Morpheus specifically listed Arrotex Pharmaceuticals – one of DBG Health’s business units, created in 2019 via a merger between Apotex Australia and Arrow Pharmaceuticals – as the victim, saying that parties interested in learning...

– which saw a hacker able to completely surveil their victim’s property – was an older device that reached end-of-life in 2019. “We strongly encourage customers to review their systems, and if outdated, replace them with newer models that have been...

are being settled after the company agreed to a US$45 million payout. MGM suffered the first of the two cyber attacks in 2019, exposing the personal data of up to 10.6 million customers. Data included names, emails, phone numbers and birth dates. While...

with the NSO Group following allegations that the latter’s Pegasus Spyware had been deployed against 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019. While the NSO Group had defended its actions by claiming that it had little control over how its customers used its...

had a total student enrolment in 2022 of 18,934 and employs more than 4,000 staff. The university suffered a data breach in 2019 that impacted 19 years’ worth of personal data from both students and teachers. According to comments from intelligence...

collaborative efforts and more. This is the second time the AFP has led the VGT, previously chairing it from 2009 to 2019. At the time, the ACCCE had not been established, and the threat landscape has changed dramatically. Other members of the VGT...

OpenAI, which had only raised US$130.5 million in donations through its for-profit subsidiary since it was introduced in 2019. It is also worth noting that Musk’s xAI is also a for-profit, public-benefit corporation.

failures in the lead-up and response to a ransomware-related data breach in May and June 2023. “ASIC alleges from March 2019 to 8 June 2023, FIIG failed to take the appropriate steps, as is required by an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensee, to...

been stripped of security clearance and the Justice Department has been ordered to investigate him. Taylor wrote a book in 2019 criticising Trump and his presidency. “I think it’s a very important case, and I think he’s guilty of treason, if you want to...

securely provided software updates are critical to maintaining their integrity. In recent years, hacking contests like the 2019 Voting Village at DEF CON have exposed vulnerabilities in voting machines, pressuring manufacturers to improve security....

of CVE-2024-30051, a previous zero-day EoP vulnerability in DWM. Today, all current versions of Visual Studio 2022 and 2019 receive patches for CVE-2025-32702, a zero-day RCE where exploitation requires the user to download and open a malicious file....

ordered that assets totalling more than $4.5 million be forfeited, including a waterfront home in Beachmere, Queensland, a 2019 black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and 24.99454224 bitcoin. The funds will go toward supporting law enforcement measures. “The...

of dollars of unexpected debt, and some were pursued by debt collectors, in some instances, for years.” Between August 2019 and July 2023, staff at 16 Optus stores from around the country sold contracts in breach of consumer law to 400 customers. Staff...

program and its military nuclear program,” with the sanctions mentioned referring to those placed on the bank by the US in 2019 after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal it had with Iran, which would limit the Iranian nuclear program. In return, Iran...

program and its military nuclear program,” with the sanctions mentioned referring to those placed on the bank by the US in 2019 after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal it had with Iran, which would limit the Iranian nuclear program. In return, Iran...