$1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds One hundred and fifty people who worked for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have been investigated – and some prosecuted – for participating in a tax refund scam promoted on Facebook and TikTok …
Looks like LockBit took a swipe at an outsourced life insurance application Indian tech services giant Infosys has been named as the source of a data leak suffered by the Bank of America.... [...]
Moscow-backed Cozy Bear may have had access to the green rectangular email cloud for six months HPE has become the latest tech giant to admit it has been compromised by Russian operatives.... [...]
'Aleksandr Ermakov' isn't allowed down under after being linked to ten-million-record leak Australia's government has used the "significant cyber incidents" sanctions regime it introduced in 2021 for the first time, against a Russian named Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov whom authorities have deemed responsible for the 2022 attack on health insurer …
.SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife Scammers are buying up cheap domain names to host sites that sell dodgy health products using fake articles, according to cybercrime disruption outfit Netcraft.... [...]
‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more Global crime networks have set up shop in autonomous territories run by armed gangs across Southeast Asia, and are using them to host physical and online casinos that, in …
Infosec academic suggests Beijing's warning that iThing owners aren't anonymous deserves attention outside the great firewall too In June 2023 China made a typically bombastic announcement: operators of short-distance ad hoc networks must ensure they run according to proper socialist principles, and ensure all users divulge their real-world identities …
And he would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for this one tiny backdoor On Call Welcome once more, dear reader, to On Call, The Register 's weekly reader-contributed column detailing the delights and dangers of working in tech support.... [...]
Cleaning up after hackers is easy compared to surviving the politics of consultancy On Call It’s the last Friday of 2023, but because the need for tech support never goes away neither does On Call, The Register ’s Friday column in which readers share their tales of being …
Alleged crims used AI to pose as friends, family, romantic partners – and sold dodgy NFTs A transnational police operation has resulted in the arrest of 3,500 alleged cybercriminals and the seizure of $300 million in cash and digital assets.... [...]
PLUS: Beijing wants ten-minute reporting of infosec incidents; Infosys CFO bails; TikTok's Indonesia comeback approved, for now Think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) last week published details of a campaign that spreads English language pro-China and anti-US narratives on YouTube.... [...]
Board and incoming CEO decide reorganizing is better than splitting BlackBerry has decided its plan to split into two separate companies is not a good idea and will instead reorganize itself into two independent divisions.... [...]
Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully Australia is building a top-secret cloud to host intelligence data and share it with the US and UK, which have their own clouds built for the same purpose.... [...]
Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira all in danger, again. Sigh Atlassian has emailed its customers to warn of four critical vulnerabilities, but the message had flaws of its own – the links it contained weren't live for all readers at the time of despatch.... [...]
Predicts cyber crims will find binary brainboxes harder to battle Cisco's executive veep for security Jeetu Patel has predicted that AI will change the infosec landscape, but that end users will eventually pay for the privilege of having a binary brainbox by their side when they go into battle …
Report suggests Sellafield compromised since 2015, response seems worryingly ignorant of Stuxnet The government of the United Kingdom has issued a strongly worded denial of a report that the Sellafield nuclear complex has been compromised by malware for years.... [...]
Ongoing investigation found evidence of stolen employee creds and social engineering Nine days after issuing a vaguely worded warning about a possible cyber security incident, web tracking and analytics outfit New Relic has revealed a two-front attack.... [...]
Zuck boots propagandists, Big G finds surge of action directed at Taiwan Meta and Google have disclosed what they allege are offensive cyber ops conducted by China.... [...]
JAXA is having a tough time in cyberspace and outer space, the latter thanks to an electrical glitch Japan's Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) has reported a cyber incident.... [...]
They get access to both China's internet and global platforms, and cash in on both China is offering foreign influencers access to its vast market in return for content that sings its praises and helps to spreads Beijing's desired narratives more widely around the world, according to think tank …
Users told to hold tight and await instructions as investigation continues Web tracking and analytics outfit New Relic has issued a scanty security advisory warning customers it has experienced a scary cyber something.... [...]
Linked to org that UK authorities found once failed its anti-money-laundering obligations Swedish digital rights organization Qurium has discovered around 250 cloned websites and suggested they exist to drive people to China-linked gambling sites.... [...]
Jury took just four hours to reach guilty verdicts Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty of seven criminal charges.... [...]
Nobody knows which state, but government never quite shrugged off claims it uses spyware Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors.... [...]
Risk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers Atlassian has told customers they “must take immediate action” to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool.... [...]