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Australia covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Australia, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) issued an alert about a global exploitation campaign targeting vulnerable content management systems (CMS) and plugins. [...]
The Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) is warning organizations of an ongoing malware campaign using the ClickFix social engineering technique to distribute the Vidar Stealer info-stealing malware. [...]
The Department of Education in Victoria, Australia, notified parents that attackers gained access to a database containing the personal information of current and former students. [...]
A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an "evil twin" WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers at various airports across Australia. [...]
Today, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia announced sanctions targeting Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) providers that have supported ransomware gangs and other cybercrime operations. [...]
DoorDash has disclosed a data breach that hit the food delivery platform this October. Beginning yesterday evening, DoorDash, which serves millions of customers across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, started emailing those impacted by the newly disclosed security incident. [...]
DoorDash has disclosed a data breach that hit the food delivery platform this October. Beginning yesterday evening, DoorDash, which serves millions of customers across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, started emailing those impacted by the newly disclosed security incident. [...]
The Australian government is warning about ongoing cyberattacks against unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country to infect routers with the BadCandy webshell. [...]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing Microsoft for allegedly misleading 2.7 million Australians into paying for the Copilot AI assistant in the Microsoft 365 service. [...]
Australian airline Qantas has confirmed that 5.7 million people have been impacted by a recent data breach, in which threat actors stole customers' data. [...]
Australian airline Qantas disclosed that it detected a cyberattack on Monday after threat actors gained access to a third-party platform containing customer data. [...]
New South Wales police in Australia have arrested a 27-year-old former Western Sydney University (WSU) student for allegedly hacking into the University's systems on multiple occasions, starting with a scheme to obtain cheaper parking. [...]
In an update to a joint advisory with CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the FBI said that the Play ransomware gang had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, three times the number of victims reported in October 2023. [...]
The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) disclosed a data breach incident where private documents leaked online and were indexed by major search engines. [...]
Over the weekend, a massive wave of credential stuffing attacks hit multiple large Australian super funds, compromising thousands of members' accounts. [...]
The Termite ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for breaching and stealing sensitive healthcare data belonging to Genea patients, one of Australia's largest fertility services providers. [...]
The Australian government has banned all Kaspersky Lab products and web services from its systems and devices following an analysis that claims the company poses a significant security risk to the country. [...]
Genea, one of Australia's largest fertility services providers, disclosed that unknown attackers breached its network and accessed data stored on compromised systems. [...]
The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom have sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) services provider, for supplying essential attack infrastructure for the LockBit ransomware gang. [...]
Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. have issued guidance urging makers of network edge devices and appliances to improve forensic visibility to help defenders detect attacks and investigate breaches. [...]