A cybercrime group has exploited a flaw in MOVEit software and is demanding a ransom British Airways, Boots and the BBC have been hit with an ultimatum to begin ransom negotiations from a cybercrime group after employees’ personal data was stolen in a hacking attack. It emerged on Wednesday …
Cyberattack resulted in hacking of 4TB of data including IDs, finance reports, accounting data, client documents and credit card details Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The Australian commercial law firm HWL …
EFF has a good explainer on the problems with the new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being negotiated in Vienna. The draft treaty has the potential to rewrite criminal laws around the world, possibly adding over 30 criminal offenses and new expansive police powers for both domestic and international criminal …
Investment fraud amounts for biggest share at $1.5bn, followed by remote access and payment redirection rorts Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australians lost a record amount of more than $3 …
Alluring and useful they may be, but the AI interfaces’ potential as gateways for fraud and intrusive data gathering is huge – and is only set to grow Concerns about the growing abilities of chatbots trained on large language models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Bard and Microsoft …
Genesis Market is shut down : Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stolen credentials. But …
Brian Krebs is reporting that the UK’s National Crime Agency is setting up fake DDoS-for-hire sites as part of a sting operation: The NCA says all of its fake so-called “booter” or “stresser” sites - which have so far been accessed by several thousand people—have been created to …
France has banned not only TikTok from government phones, but Facebook and Twitter, too. Could this be a tipping point for big tech? Plus, AI-generated pictures of the pope signal a new type of viral image Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full …
From Brian Krebs : A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the …
A paper expanding on greater ability to intervene during hacks – especially on private companies – causes alarm among Coalition and Greens Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Labor could face Senate difficulties if …
Law firm Baker McKenzie says company failed to protect privacy of customers in Australia and overseas Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The law firm Baker McKenzie has launched a class action …
Criminals using Google search ads to deliver malware isn’t new, but Ars Technica declared that the problem has become much worse recently. The surge is coming from numerous malware families, including AuroraStealer, IcedID, Meta Stealer, RedLine Stealer, Vidar, Formbook, and XLoader. In the past, these families typically relied …
In this week’s newsletter: The social media network is putting its APIs – the under-praised tool that keeps the internet as we know it going – behind a paywall. And the ramifications are huge Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here APIs may not seem like …
Chainalysis reports that worldwide ransomware payments were down in 2022. Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in 2022, down from $765.6 million the year before. As always, we have to caveat these findings by noting that the true totals are much higher, as there …
I don’t know how much of a thing this will end up being, but we are seeing ChatGPT-written malware in the wild....within a few weeks of ChatGPT going live, participants in cybercrime forums—some with little or no coding experience—were using it to write software and …
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays, planning parties, and learning about new topics. Now we can add malware development and the pursuit of other types …
In the final episode of Australian Politics for 2022, political editor Katharine Murphy speaks to the minister for home affairs and cyber security Clare O’Neil about the strategic challenges for Australia and the region. These include the increased likelihood of cyber-attacks, decreasing trust in democracy and growing risks …
Telecommunications company says hacker searched for customers’ cryptocurrency and financial information Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Telecommunications giant TPG has revealed an email-hosting service used by up to 15,000 iiNet …
Release of names, numbers and addresses of some unlisted customers was not due to cyber-attack Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Telstra has apologised after publishing the details of thousands of customers …
Experts suggest using multifactor authentication and telling your bank to put extra security checks in place Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Millions of Medibank’s current and former customers have had …
Company says its security system prevented the hacker accessing customer data or encrypted passwords Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Password manager LastPass has told customers that some of their information has …
Medibank confirms it may be the full trove of hundreds of thousands of customers’ private records that were stolen from the health insurer Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The cybercriminals behind …
Medibank confirms it may be the full trove of hundreds of thousands of customers’ private records that were stolen from the health insurer Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The cybercriminals behind …
Experts say investing in identity theft protection may provide peace of mind, but won’t help recover lost information Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The recent Optus and Medibank data breaches in which thousands of Australians had their personal information stolen …
Experts suggest using multifactor authentication and telling your bank to put extra security checks in place Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Millions of Medibank’s current and former customers have had …