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Researchers have uncovered a complex impersonation campaign with the aim of installing a backdoor on the machine of a nuclear security expert.
David Hollingworth • Sat, 09 Aug 2025
Nickelodeon gets slimed as hackers release decades-old data
Children’s television channel Nickelodeon has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after hackers claimed to have stolen half a terabyte of data.
Daniel Croft • Fri, 07 Jul 2023
Cyber criminals ‘pony up’, publish data of 10,000 horse riders
A horse-riding organisation has had the data of 10,000 users leaked after it said “neigh” to paying threat actors a demanded ransom.
Daniel Croft • Thu, 06 Jul 2023
Ransomware attack brings Japan’s busiest port to standstill
Operations at Japan’s largest and busiest port have been brought to a halt after a suspected ransomware attack disrupted the system controlling the port’s container ...
Australian cloud assets are a large target for hackers, according to a new report
Increased complexity, a lack of encryption, and an increase in data stored in the cloud are some of the anxiety points being felt by Australian businesses when it comes ...
David Hollingworth • Thu, 06 Jul 2023
New national cyber security coordinator releases statement on HWL Ebsworth hack
Australia’s national cyber security coordinator has said that his first priority in the new role will be to look into the circumstances surrounding the catastrophic hack ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 05 Jul 2023
US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency starts up new CyberSentry program
CISA has just launched a new program designed to monitor cyber threats to critical infrastructure and use that information to correlate threat activity across a wide ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 04 Jul 2023
Aussie cyber organisations lack competitive rates, risk losing senior staff
Australian cyber organisations face the risk of losing their chief information security officers (CISOs) and senior cyber staff to their overseas counterparts due to a ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 04 Jul 2023
Anonymous Sudan claims to have access to 30m Microsoft accounts
After a hack that successfully took down Microsoft’s OneDrive storage service last month, Anonymous Sudan now says it has the login credentials for 30 million Microsoft ...
Almost 4 in 5 cyber executives would pay ransom
A large majority of cyber executives would pay ransom demands in the case of a cyber attack, according to new research.
SEC announces delay in finalising new cyber security disclosure rules
The US Securities Exchange Commission has said it is pushing back finalising changes to how cyber security incidents are disclosed to October 2023.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 03 Jul 2023
WordPress Ultimate Member plugin vulnerability being exploited in the wild
A third-party plugin used by more than 200,000 WordPress has been found to have an exploitable bug that — despite patching — is still being taken advantage of by bad ...
Deja vu: Optus suffers data breach from major cyber attack
Less than a year after it suffered one of the biggest cyber attacks in Australian history, Optus has announced that some of its data has been leaked.
Daniel Croft • Mon, 03 Jul 2023
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