Australian CISOs feel unsupported
28 April, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingNearly all Australian CISOs report struggling to get the organisational support required to ensure their organisation is resilient against cyber threats.
Attackers extorting victims with fake ransomware claims
19 April, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingA new cybercrime email campaign uncovered by Avast attempts to fool victims into thinking they have been the victim of a ransomware or data extortion attack.
Cybercrime sets the gender equality bar
17 April, 2023 by Mayra Rosario Fuentes, Senior Threat Researcher, Trend MicroThe cybercrime underground is becoming a bastion of equal opportunity from a gender perspective, with participants judged on their skills not their pronouns.
Australian businesses becoming ransomware repeat victims
04 April, 2023A new report shows that Australian organisations are increasingly falling prey to successful ransomware attacks — in many cases, multiple times.
Australians falling for bank impersonation scams
04 April, 2023The ACCC's Scamwatch received over 14,000 reports about bank impersonation scams last year, with consumers losing more than $20 million in savings.
Activism has gone cyber: the rise of hacktivism
29 March, 2023 by Hamish Armati, Director of Technical Services, APJMuch like activism, hacktivist groups are formed by groups of cybercriminals sharing the same political and social beliefs coming together to promote an agenda.
Attackers capitalise on GPT-4 hype with crypto scam
24 March, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingTenable has provided details of a phishing campaign designed to lure in victims using the hype over the launch of OpenAI's GPT-4.
Skills gaps leaving orgs exposed to more cyber risk
24 March, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingSome 68% of organisations worldwide are facing additional cyber risks due to the ongoing cybersecurity skills shortage, according to Fortinet.
Sophos explores using ChatGPT to tackle cyberthreats
22 March, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingResearch from Sophos indicates that the generative AI technology behind ChatGPT can be used to combat, as well as merely augment, cyber attacks.
Ransomware victims who pay subsidise future attacks
01 March, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingOnly 10% of ransomware victims pay up, but by doing so they are subsidising the cost of nine future attacks, according to research from Trend Micro.
Cyber attacks against Ukraine shift to NATO countries
01 March, 2023New data from Check Point Research shows that cyber warfare has escalated in line with the Russia–Ukraine war.
1 in 4 ANZ orgs have covered up a cyber attack
27 February, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingSome 25% of security and IT decision-makers from ANZ admit that their organisation has knowingly concealed a cyber attack from the public, research suggests.
The rise of digilantism: we don't need another hero
17 February, 2023 by Roger Spence, Client Director, TesserentTempted to act as 'cyber Batman', seek out cybercriminals and bring them to justice? That's not the role of private enterprise.
Pig butchering scams on the rise
16 February, 2023Sophos has released details of two expansive pig butchering scams operating that directly targeted the organisation's principal threat researcher, Sean Gallagher.
Scam crypto app makes it to Apple App Store
09 February, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe first fake crypto apps to make it past Apple’s security protocols to list on the Apple App Store have been discovered and detailed by security firm Sophos.
