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Finalists announced for Australian Cyber Security Awards 2024

Finalists announced for Australian Cyber Security Awards 2024

Cyber Daily is pleased to reveal that over 160 finalists have been selected to compete at the prestigious awards this ...

Malavika Santhebennur Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Exclusive: BlackSuit ransomware claims attack on Australian property firm Herron Todd White

Exclusive: BlackSuit ransomware claims attack on Australian property firm Herron Todd White

The nationwide property valuation specialists have allegedly lost more than 300 gigabytes of data to the prolific ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 30 Apr 2024
RansomHub claims 700GB stolen from Australian retail design company

RansomHub claims 700GB stolen from Australian retail design company

Infamous ransomware actors claim to have stolen a massive amount of data from an Australian retail design company.

Daniel Croft Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Exclusive: Mt Hira College suffers alleged student email data breach

Exclusive: Mt Hira College suffers alleged student email data breach

A poster on a popular hacking forum claims to have a database of more than 700 student emails and unencrypted passwords ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Dragos and Sekuro announce new OT security partnership

Dragos and Sekuro announce new OT security partnership

The new operational technology partnership comes as attacks against Australian critical infrastructure rise.

David Hollingworth Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Introducing Muddling Meerkat – a new threat actor controlling the Great Firewall of China

Introducing Muddling Meerkat – a new threat actor controlling the Great Firewall of China

The newly discovered PRC-backed threat actor uses “sophisticated DNS activities” to probe networks all over the globe.

David Hollingworth Mon, 29 Apr 2024
SSS Australia falls victim to Hunters International ransomware gang

SSS Australia falls victim to Hunters International ransomware gang

Hunters International posts nearly 70 gigabytes of data, totalling more than 60,000 individual files, belonging to an ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 29 Apr 2024
Australia records 388% quarter-on-quarter jump in compromised accounts

Australia records 388% quarter-on-quarter jump in compromised accounts

A staggering 1.8 million Australian user accounts have been leaked in data breaches in the first three months of 2024.

David Hollingworth Fri, 26 Apr 2024
Exclusive: BlackSuit ransomware gang claims hack on Octapharma Plasma

Exclusive: BlackSuit ransomware gang claims hack on Octapharma Plasma

Donor details, lab data, passports, and personal information have all been allegedly compromised in the US Octapharma ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 24 Apr 2024
Akira ransomware made US$42m in ransoms before its first birthday

Akira ransomware made US$42m in ransoms before its first birthday

International cyber agencies have banded together to release a new advisory on an infamous cyber gang after it reeled in ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 23 Apr 2024
Palo Alto’s Unit 42 team reveals new wave of PAN-OS firewall hack attempts

Palo Alto’s Unit 42 team reveals new wave of PAN-OS firewall hack attempts

PAN-OS firewalls are facing an “increasing number of attacks”, though so far, signs of active command execution are rare

David Hollingworth Tue, 23 Apr 2024
Makers of CrushFTP file transfer tool urge users to upgrade ‘ASAP’

Makers of CrushFTP file transfer tool urge users to upgrade ‘ASAP’

Hackers are likely already taking advantage of a vulnerability in a particular version of the file transfer application

David Hollingworth Tue, 23 Apr 2024
UnitedHealth says ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans affected in breach

UnitedHealth says ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans affected in breach

A “substantial proportion” of Americans may have been impacted by the Change Healthcare breach, according to parent ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 23 Apr 2024