up to “the standards expected of them under Prudential Standard CPS 234 Information Security”. CPS 234 was introduced in 2019 and requires financial entities to have clearly defined information security roles and responsibilities at the board level and...

if the passwords were not reset, they remain vulnerable. “This incident is related to an old vulnerability resolved in May 2019. At that time, Fortinet issued a PSIRT advisory and communicated directly with customers. And because customer security is...

on NATO at large, and all member states would be expected to come to the defence of the attacked state. But as recently as 2019, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stated that cyber attacks do, in fact, count when it comes to Article 5. “To keep us...

it had taken down the Polizia Postale (Postal Police) website, the group which is responsible for fighting cyber crime. The 2019 Eurovision in Tel Aviv, Israel, was also hacked, with the stream showing missile strike warnings and blasts in the host...

Carefully crafting the character Marcela (Marcy) Flores, the hackers added their target as a friend on Facebook in late 2019 before kickstarting their online friendship by exchanging messages in November of the following year. The cyber criminals...

that seem suspicious, and report it to [email protected].” Who is Cuba? The Cuba ransomware gang began operating in 2019 and had an impressive year in 2022 when it collected more than US$60 million in ransoms. It was even the subject of a specific...

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...

victim of a crime, they don’t know how to report scam activity, or they feel embarrassed because they were scammed.” Since 2019, the number of crypto ATMs in Australia has increased from 23 in 2019 to more than 1,600 in 2025. With more ATMs, more...

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...

which will see $4 billion invested into projects that will bolster Australia’s national research infrastructure from 2018 to 2019. Future investments are also planned, such as the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, which will inject another $1...

that has uncovered a massive uptick in credential stuffing attack traffic on financial services web applications between 2019 to 2020. Akamai’s research uncovered data indicating there has been over 193 billion credential stuffing attacks worldwide,...

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...

pic.twitter.com/SGtaev8eGO — Aquarius (@aquaismissing) December 11, 2023 A similar vulnerability was found in Panorama UI in 2019, which allowed HTML to be similarly injected. However, this also allowed the execution of JavaScript code, making it much...

in Hong Kong, $3.87 in Japan and $3.84 in India. All four countries reported higher costs per transaction than the regional 2019 average that involved other APAC markets at $3.40. “With sophisticated threats on the rise, taking a multi-layered solution...

Cybercrime Coordination Centre. AFP Commander Graeme Marshall said that cryptocurrency ATMs – which have risen from 23 in 2019 to more than 1,800 across Australia in 2025 – are a common point of transfer for scammers. “Victims are being manipulated into...

began to appear. However, Group-IB researchers believe the initial test versions of the malware date back to November 2019. Conti has dominated the ransomware scene in terms of the number of companies whose data has been encrypted. In 2020, Conti...

compromised. The second notice, filed days later on 31 January, does give a date of when the breach occurred sometime in 2019, but gives a date of when the breach was discovered as 19 December 2022. The affected data in this second notice is more...

for Reserve employers to support the ADF. Other recent calls for ADF Reserve support include Operation Bushfire Assist in 2019-20, which was the impetus for Penten’s Jordan Johnson to join the ADF Reserves – despite having no ADF background. Jordan...

that exploit them. It was a hell of a year for the Clop ransomware gang in 2023. The gang has been around since at least 2019, and its rise has been pretty steady. By 2021, it was already ranking as the third-most active ransomware operator in the...

used to connect point-of-sale devices, went end-of-life in August 2021, and the vulnerability was first disclosed in 2019. According to the CVE record, this vulnerability could lead to remote code execution via a specially crafted HTTP request. Cyber...