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...

security firm Cybereason. The firm discovered the activity last year but said the hacking campaign dates to at least 2019, and it suggested that reams of data could have been stolen in the interim. The research is an unsettling reminder of the scope of...

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...

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...

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,...

with 6 per cent for home lending and 8 per cent for household deposits. CBA’s business has more than doubled since June 2019, from $89 billion to its current standing of $180 billion. The growth has also strengthened CBA’s position among Australian...

New York’s Department of Financial Services for “significant cyber security violations”, after four security breaches from 2019 to 2021 that exposed a sizeable amount of sensitive customer data. The cruise line operator had violated a state cyber...

The Colchester City Council data affected was stored on an unsecured Amazon Data Bucket run by Capita and related to the 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 financial years. The firm has since confirmed that the data bucket is now secure. Capita has not...

extensive research and consultation. The organisation’s flagship publications – Australia’s Sector Competitiveness Plan 2019 and Industry Roadmap – outline the opportunity for Australia's cyber security sector to support growth across the whole economy.

to pay, or it will publish all the data it has. LockBit is a Russia-based actor that has been in operation since at least 2019. It is responsible for a number of high-profile attacks in the last six months, including on the UK’s Royal Mail service, an...

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...

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...

Peacock Bros’ internal networks. It has posted a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) between Peacock Bros and another company, a 2019 land sale contract, an income statement from 2021, and the driver’s licence of a Victorian individual. The scanned passport...

businesses to upskill, innovate and export globally as manufacturers of products for space applications,” he said. In 2019, Boeing signed a Statement of Strategic Intent and Cooperation with the Australian Space Agency, committing to invest in R&D,...

sets them up to succeed. Citing a survey of small and medium businesses conducted by the Australian Cyber Security Centre in 2019, they note that the sector is highly vulnerable to malicious cyber activity. Now, while it’s far from often that Australia...