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Cyber spending to reach over $325m in 2025 as AI tech empowers threat actors

Cyber spending to reach over $325m in 2025 as AI tech empowers threat actors

Cyber spending is set to peak at over A$325 million in 2025 as organisations continue to fight back against cyber ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 29 Nov 2024
Researchers find 20 vulnerabilities in Advantech Wi-Fi access point

Researchers find 20 vulnerabilities in Advantech Wi-Fi access point

A chain of vulnerabilities could lead to access points being targeted by denial-of-service and man-in-the-middle attacks

David Hollingworth Fri, 29 Nov 2024
Op-Ed: The evolving threat of hacktivism in a digital world

Op-Ed: The evolving threat of hacktivism in a digital world

Hacktivism, the combination of hacking and activism, has emerged as a prominent tactic in cyber warfare and led to ...

Ashwin Ram, Cyber Security Evangelist at Check Point Software Technologies Fri, 29 Nov 2024
Exclusive: NoName targets at least 9 Australian organisations, Victorian Coroners Court confirms incident

Exclusive: NoName targets at least 9 Australian organisations, Victorian Coroners Court confirms incident

The infamous NoName ransomware gang has claimed cyber attacks on a number of Australian organisations and government ...

Daniel Croft Thu, 28 Nov 2024
380m scraped Facebook records allegedly for sale

380m scraped Facebook records allegedly for sale

A database allegedly containing 380 million records of Facebook users has been listed for sale by a threat actor.

Daniel Croft Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Pakistan national charged over alleged telco scam that raked in more $1m

Pakistan national charged over alleged telco scam that raked in more $1m

The 21-year-old alleged scammer stole the financial details of more than 100 people by pretending to be a telco ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Aus3C and partners commence work on Voluntary Data Classification Framework

Aus3C and partners commence work on Voluntary Data Classification Framework

The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre, the CSIRO’s Data61, and the Department of Home Affairs to set up a new ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Exclusive: Aussie mortgage broker Finsure confirms ‘cyber incident’ impacting customers and brokers

Exclusive: Aussie mortgage broker Finsure confirms ‘cyber incident’ impacting customers and brokers

Finsure has confirmed the incident after “almost 300,000 unique” alleged Finsure emails were added to the data leak ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Exclusive: AusPost confirms not affected by global third-party supply chain attack

Exclusive: AusPost confirms not affected by global third-party supply chain attack

The Blue Yonder supply chain attack has already affected a number of major organisations, including Starbucks, ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 27 Nov 2024
BlackBasta ransomware gang shifts to nation-state tactics

BlackBasta ransomware gang shifts to nation-state tactics

Security researchers have observed a trend in tactics, techniques and procedures that may link the ransomware gang to ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Exclusive: Melbourne laser cutter breached by INC Ransom

Exclusive: Melbourne laser cutter breached by INC Ransom

Victorian laser-cutting firm AC Laser has confirmed that it suffered a ransomware attack, after the INC Ransomware gang ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Op-Ed: Only Ferraris and smart cars – cyber security’s mid-market failings

Op-Ed: Only Ferraris and smart cars – cyber security’s mid-market failings

The cyber security industry has a peculiar problem. It does not have a clue how to build products for, sell to, and ...

Ajay Unni, CEO at StickmanCyber Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Exclusive: Fencing and site security firm ATF Services confirms cyber attack

Exclusive: Fencing and site security firm ATF Services confirms cyber attack

ATF Services has confirmed the incident after the INC Ransom ransomware gang claimed to have stolen one terabyte of the ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 26 Nov 2024