our homes, in offices, in factories and warehouses. Ericsson estimates there were 11 billion connected devices worldwide in 2019, and it expects the number to reach 25 billion by the end of 2025. Our homes now have connected security cameras, connected...

solutions that enable affiliate threat actor groups to target mobile devices without the need for homegrown resources. In 2019, Pegasus was used to leverage WhatsApp and infect more than 1,400 user devices, from senior government officials to...

based on 157 million attacks. Automated bot attacks continue to rise; human-initiated attacks rose for the first time since 2019 – Automated bot attacks grew 32 per cent YoY globally, with LATAM showing the highest growth at 455 per cent. The US and...

breach, but how did it impact trust in the ANU? The breach wasn’t publicly acknowledged until October 2018, by which time 2019 enrolments were locked in. And the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 made it difficult to understand...

and power generation throughout Kazakhstan. Dragos is aware of targeted operations that started during the third quarter of 2019 and have intermittently continued throughout 2021. ERYTHRITE is an activity group that broadly targets organisations in the...

Android apps to collect personal and financial information. xHelper - A malicious application seen in the wild since March 2019, used for downloading other malicious apps and display advertisement. The application can hide itself from the user and...

practitioners in the lead-up to the census to test the system for vulnerabilities with DDoS attacks of their own. In 2019, Auth0 launched a private bug bounty program to further reinforce its emphasis on security and ensure that its customers are...

environments. To satisfy growing customer demands across Australia and New Zealand, F5 expanded its global footprint in 2019 by deploying a regional point of presence in Sydney, and over the past several years, F5 has transformed its business and...

most common cyber crime in 2020, with 240,000 victims leading to a loss of US$50 million – this is two times more than in 2019, and 10 times higher than in 2018. Phishing is causing havoc like never before, and this goes to show that email protection is...

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,...

the police cyber prevent network of students as young as nine deploying DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks from 2019 to 2020. A new UK initiative to divert young people away from criminality has been launched after cyber attacks designed to...

transactions from the banking user’s legitimate device.” Microsoft released a patch for the nine-year-old loophole in 2019. [Related: Conti emerges as growing cyber threat]

cyber-enabled warfare on the modern body politic that upon the release of the French government’s Military Cyber Strategy in 2019, France’s Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly argued that already international “cyber warfare has begun”. Indeed,...

founded as an enterprise security company with Google "X". It migrated into Google itself by way of Google Cloud in 2019 as part of the search giant's efforts to expand its enterprise revenues, by expanding the functionality and services around its...

relationship status were included in the logs, of which Facebook – now known as Meta – said was collected via scraping in 2019. May: Colonial Pipeline: If there was ever an example of how a cyber attack can impact the physical world, the cyber attack...

provider in Israel. The report warned that Iran’s ransomware campaign appears to be on the brink of global expansion. In 2019, a report prepared by researchers at the US giant Microsoft Corporation said that Iranian hackers are working to infiltrate...

next 12 months and beyond, the total value of deals across blockchain technology companies will increase significantly. In 2019, we saw investments in blockchain across the Asia-Pacific increase by 83.9 per cent, taking the total market value to $523.8...

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...

skimming groups such as those filed under the umbrella term “Magecart”. These groups struck global targets frequently in 2019 and 2020, but little activity has been reported this year. In September 2020, for example, around 2,000 stores running Magento...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. In 2021 Penten won Emerging...