Tangerine Telecom, a challenger retail service provider, says a legacy customer database containing details of 232,000 current and former customers was accessed by an unknown party. This incident occurred on the 18th of February, and the management team learned of...
What Has Happened? Australia's largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider has fallen victim to a cyberattack. This attack was discovered on the 19th of December, and it has been carried out in the same way as a 2022 data breach that crippled private...
Cybercriminals are ramping up efforts to scam Australians out of their money ahead of Christmas, with plans to prey on stressed-out families. Westpac has issued a warning to be extra careful around scams this festive season, as new data reveals that buying and...
Scammers are increasingly using a range of alarming tactics to threaten, intimidate and steal from Chinese students living and studying in Australia, the National Anti-Scam Centre has warned. Reports of scammers posing as Chinese police to target young people...
QR codes are fast and easy to create, making it even easier for cybercriminals to steal your information or load malware onto your device. Here are some common QR code scams that you should look out for. 1. Email Scams Scammers often send phishing emails that...
What Has Happened? The University of Sydney has announced they have experienced an attack in their supply chain, this occurs when an attack and/or a data breach has occurred on an organisation's third-party service providers. This has resulted in the exposure of...
As many Australians have experienced recently, Genevieve had her data leaked many years ago. She promptly changed her passwords, and even though she received some strange calls and emails, she thought that was the end of it. Until she received one email that made...
The 2023 State of Ransomware report reveals that global ransomware attacks have reached an all-time high and have shown no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Within one year (July 2022 – June 2023), there has been a total of 1,900 ransomware attacks within...
What Has Happened? On June 9th, the University of Manchester announced that it had become the victim of a cyberattack. It has been confirmed that many of the University's critical systems have been accessed by a malicious actor, and this has resulted in a portion...
Threat researchers have recently witnessed a rise in cybercriminals using email-based quishing attacks to target users. At least one quishing campaign appears to be large-scale, long-running and dynamic, based on attack cadence and variations in the lures and...
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