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A new report has revealed the impact of ransomware attacks on customer loyalty and behaviour, and the results are pretty grim.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 03 Nov 2025
PODCAST: Aussie financial institutions exposed online and APRA’s response to cyber ‘gaps’
In this episode of the Cyber Security Uncut podcast, Phil Tarrant and Major General (Ret’d) Dr Marcus Thompson unpack the hostile cyber threat environment facing ...
Robyn Tongol • Fri, 07 Jul 2023
3 things you need to know about state-sponsored hackers
Among the most formidable adversaries when it comes to cyber crime and espionage are state-sponsored threat actors.
Reporter • Fri, 07 Jul 2023
Iranian threat actor targeting nuclear security experts with novel Mac malware
Researchers have uncovered a complex impersonation campaign with the aim of installing a backdoor on the machine of a nuclear security expert.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 07 Jul 2023
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.