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...

remained largely the same, with a 1.4 per cent average increase. Microsoft Japan also moved to a four-day work week in 2019, resulting in a productivity increase of 40 per cent. However, AI companies advertise their products to companies with the...

by enterprise cyber security firm Proofpoint, has previously been seen using this attack strategy, having been active since 2019. Proofpoint said the group’s motivations are purely financial and that it specialises in conducting BEC attacks, gaining...

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...

to the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) every day. A new ACSC report, Cybercrime in Australia: July to September 2019, shows Australians are being targeted by sophisticated cyber operations online. Minister for Defence Linda Reynolds urged...

appeared to be earning despite being unemployed that drew their attention, according to Kpangkpari. Ayivor was arrested in 2019 but fell ill and died before the case could go to trial while the woman posing as Erskine seemed to disappear once the scam...

customers in relation to the headline-making 2022 data breach. The OAIC alleges that in the period from around 17 October 2019 to 20 September 2022, Optus “seriously interfered with the privacy of approximately 9.5 million Australians”. The OAIC...