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Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Mills of Australia’s Second-Largest Sugar Producer

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Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Mills of Australia’s Second-Largest Sugar Producer 2026-06-15 at 18:15 By Eduard Kovacs Mackay Sugar was targeted in a cyberattack carried out by a threat group known as The Gentlemen. The post Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Mills of Australia’s Second-Largest Sugar Producer appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from […]

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Why Australian Dark Web Data Is Now Being Sold in Bundles — and What It Means for Organizational Exposure in 2026

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Why Australian Dark Web Data Is Now Being Sold in Bundles — and What It Means for Organizational Exposure in 2026 2026-05-14 at 12:48 By Ashish Khaitan In 2026, opportunistic assaults and isolated breaches will no longer characterize Australia’s cyber risk environment. Industrialized data theft, in which stolen data is packaged, repackaged, and marketed on

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Australian Man Sentenced to Prison for Wi-Fi Attacks at Airports and on Flights

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Australian Man Sentenced to Prison for Wi-Fi Attacks at Airports and on Flights 2025-12-01 at 11:49 By Eduard Kovacs Michael Clapsis has been sentenced to 7 years and 4 months in prison for stealing sensitive information. The post Australian Man Sentenced to Prison for Wi-Fi Attacks at Airports and on Flights appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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North Korea’s IT workers are targeting firms beyond tech, crypto, and the U.S.

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North Korea’s IT workers are targeting firms beyond tech, crypto, and the U.S. 2025-10-01 at 17:24 By Zeljka Zorz North Korea’s clandestine IT Worker (ITW) program, which is long known for targeting U.S. technology firms and crypto firms, has broadened its scope to attempt to infiltrate a variety of industries worldwide, including finance, healthcare, public

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Akira ransomware affiliates continue breaching organizations via SonicWall firewalls

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Akira ransomware affiliates continue breaching organizations via SonicWall firewalls 2025-09-11 at 18:25 By Zeljka Zorz Over a year after SonicWall patched CVE-2024-40766, a critical flaw in its next-gen firewalls, ransomware attackers are still gaining a foothold in organizations by exploiting it. Like last September and earlier this year, the attackers are affiliates of the Akira

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Australia’s TPG Telecom Investigating iiNet Hack

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Australia’s TPG Telecom Investigating iiNet Hack 2025-08-19 at 15:42 By Eduard Kovacs TPG Telecom has disclosed a cybersecurity incident after discovering unauthorized access to an iiNet order management system. The post Australia’s TPG Telecom Investigating iiNet Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Qantas data breach could affect 6 million customers

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Qantas data breach could affect 6 million customers 2025-07-02 at 14:04 By Zeljka Zorz Qantas has suffered a cyber incident that has lead to a data breach. “The incident occurred when a cyber criminal targeted a call centre and gained access to a third-party customer servicing platform,” the Australian airline announced today, but said that

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Australia Enforces Ransomware Payment Reporting

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Australia Enforces Ransomware Payment Reporting 2025-06-03 at 14:01 By Ionut Arghire Covered organizations in Australia are now required to report ransomware and other cyber extortion payments within three days. The post Australia Enforces Ransomware Payment Reporting appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Australian Human Rights Commission Discloses Data Breach

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Australian Human Rights Commission Discloses Data Breach 2025-05-15 at 12:01 By Ionut Arghire The Australian Human Rights Commission says data submitted through the complaint form on its website was inadvertently exposed. The post Australian Human Rights Commission Discloses Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Hertz data breach: Customers in US, EU, UK, Australia and Canada affected

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Hertz data breach: Customers in US, EU, UK, Australia and Canada affected 2025-04-15 at 17:21 By Zeljka Zorz American car rental company Hertz has suffered a data breach linked to last year’s exploitation of Cleo zero-day vulnerabilities by a ransomware gang. The breach resulted in information of an unknown number of customers of Hertz and

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How to buy Bitcoin in Australia

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How to buy Bitcoin in Australia 2025-03-28 at 17:04 By Cointelegraph by Gabriëlla Modderman Key takeaways Bitcoin is legal in Australia and is regulated by AUSTRAC and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).  You can buy Bitcoin on various platforms, including centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), P2P platforms and Bitcoin ATMs Payment options are diverse, including

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Kaspersky Banned on Australian Government Systems

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Kaspersky Banned on Australian Government Systems 2025-02-24 at 15:01 By Eduard Kovacs Australian government entities have been banned from using products and services of Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky. The post Kaspersky Banned on Australian Government Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Australia’s Health Sector Receives $6.4 Million Cybersecurity Boost with New Threat Information-Sharing Network

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Australia’s Health Sector Receives $6.4 Million Cybersecurity Boost with New Threat Information-Sharing Network 2025-01-29 at 12:48 By daksh sharma The Australian Government has awarded a $6.4 million grant to CI-ISAC Australia, enabling the establishment of a new Health Cyber Sharing Network (HCSN). This initiative is designed to facilitate the rapid exchange of critical cyber threat

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Russian hackers deliver malicious RDP configuration files to thousands

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Russian hackers deliver malicious RDP configuration files to thousands 2024-10-30 at 12:49 By Zeljka Zorz Midnight Blizzard – a cyber espionage group that has been linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) – is targeting government, academia, defense, and NGO workers with phishing emails containing a signed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration file. “Based

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Ghost: Criminal communication platform compromised, dismantled by international law enforcement

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Ghost: Criminal communication platform compromised, dismantled by international law enforcement 2024-09-18 at 15:16 By Zeljka Zorz Another encrypted communication platform used by criminals has been dismantled and its alleged mastermind arrested, the Australian Federal Police has announced on Tuesday. “AFP Operation Kraken charged a NSW man, aged 32, for creating and administering Ghost, a dedicated

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Australian gold mining company hit with ransomware

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Australian gold mining company hit with ransomware 2024-08-13 at 14:17 By Zeljka Zorz Australian gold mining firm Evolution Mining has announced on Monday that it became aware on 8 August 2024 of a ransomware attack impacting its IT systems, and has been working with its external cyber forensic experts to investigate the incident. “Based on

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Ransomware Hits Australian Gold Mining Firm Evolution Mining

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Ransomware Hits Australian Gold Mining Firm Evolution Mining 2024-08-13 at 13:46 By Ionut Arghire Australian gold mining company Evolution Mining believes it was able to contain a ransomware attack targeting its IT systems last week. The post Ransomware Hits Australian Gold Mining Firm Evolution Mining appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Faulty CrowdStrike update takes out Windows machines worldwide

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Faulty CrowdStrike update takes out Windows machines worldwide 2024-07-19 at 11:31 By Zeljka Zorz Thousands and possibly millions of Windows computers and servers worldwide have been made inoperable by a faulty update of Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors, and the outage affected transport, broadcast, financial, retail and other organizations have been affected in Europe, Australia, the US

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Chinese APT40 group swifly leverages public PoC exploits

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Chinese APT40 group swifly leverages public PoC exploits 2024-07-09 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz Chinese state-sponsored cyber group APT40 is amazingly fast at adapting public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for vulnerabilities in widely used software, an advisory released by intelligence and cybersecurity agencies from eight countries warns. The group, which is also known as Kryptonite Panda

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Medibank breach: Security failures revealed (lack of MFA among them)

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Medibank breach: Security failures revealed (lack of MFA among them) 2024-06-18 at 17:31 By Zeljka Zorz The 2022 Medibank data breach / extortion attack perpetrated by the REvil ransomware group started by the attackers leveraging login credentials stolen from a private computer of an employee of a Medibank’s IT contractor. According to a statement by

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