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Australian and Philippine law enforcement cracking down on scam centre ‘boiler rooms’

Australian and Philippine law enforcement cracking down on scam centre ‘boiler rooms’

Cyber crime experts from the Australian Federal Police assist in the training of organised crime investigators and cyber ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Apr 2025
Russian railway outage a suspected tit-for-tat Ukrainian cyber attack

Russian railway outage a suspected tit-for-tat Ukrainian cyber attack

A disruption to the online services of Moscow’s subway service has sparked suspicions of a Ukrainian revenge cyber ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 02 Apr 2025
Exclusive: KillSec claims ransomware attack on Qld IT services firm Hexicor

Exclusive: KillSec claims ransomware attack on Qld IT services firm Hexicor

Hackers have shared screenshots of customer folders, digital certificates, and a list of hashed passwords and backup ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Apr 2025
Exclusive: Royal Mail confirms cyber attack resulting from third-party provider Spectos

Exclusive: Royal Mail confirms cyber attack resulting from third-party provider Spectos

The British Royal Mail has confirmed that it is feeling the effect of a cyber attack that resulted from one of its ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 02 Apr 2025
Exclusive: Alleged Schneider Electric data posted following November ransomware incident

Exclusive: Alleged Schneider Electric data posted following November ransomware incident

A threat actor allegedly representing the Hellcat ransomware group has posted data they say was exfiltrated from global ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 01 Apr 2025
‘Please hack me’: ‘Password’ remains the number one weakest password in Australia

‘Please hack me’: ‘Password’ remains the number one weakest password in Australia

Password, 123456, 123456789, and qwerty top the rather disappointing list of the most popular – and most breached – ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 01 Apr 2025
Aussie winners of Rapid7’s global 2025 Partner Of The Year Awards revealed

Aussie winners of Rapid7’s global 2025 Partner Of The Year Awards revealed

Local winners, including Telstra, DGplex, Cythera, CyberRisk and ctrl:cyber, walk away with awards in the fifth year of ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 01 Apr 2025
13cabs may have suffered a major data breach

13cabs may have suffered a major data breach

Major Australian cab service 13cabs has published a notice detailing a potential cyber attack after it discovered ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 01 Apr 2025
Data uploads to generative AI apps surge thirtyfold in just 1 year

Data uploads to generative AI apps surge thirtyfold in just 1 year

Source code, passwords, and intellectual property are all finding their way into GenAI, fuelling a growing risk of data ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 01 Apr 2025
Exclusive: Royal Mail suffers alleged data breach as threat actor claims 144GB stolen

Exclusive: Royal Mail suffers alleged data breach as threat actor claims 144GB stolen

A threat actor has claimed a data breach of the British Royal Mail, the UK’s national postal service.

Daniel Croft Tue, 01 Apr 2025
Exclusive: Contractor Brighton Australia listed on SafePay’s ransomware leak site

Exclusive: Contractor Brighton Australia listed on SafePay’s ransomware leak site

Hackers claim to have stolen more than 160 gigabytes of data from a Sydney-based construction contractor.

David Hollingworth Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Signal sees dramatic increase in app downloads following Yemen leak scandal

Signal sees dramatic increase in app downloads following Yemen leak scandal

Downloads of secure messaging app Signal have soared following the Trump administration’s Yemen bombing leak.

Daniel Croft Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Interview: Chris Krebs – nation-state hacking about ‘causing chaos’

Interview: Chris Krebs – nation-state hacking about ‘causing chaos’

SentinelOne’s chief intelligence and public policy officer and ex-CISA director discusses cyber crime, trends, the ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 31 Mar 2025