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Improved institutional safeguards and stricter regulations have pushed the burdens of protection and risk reduction on to Australian businesses.
Government agencies, emergency clinics, and others in Australia, New Zealand, and Tonga have had serious run-ins with the prolific ransomware outfit.
Deployed across Australia and Europe, China's electric buses are vulnerable to cybercriminals and sport a virtual kill switch the Chinese state could activate.
Last year in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, Main Street businesses like retail and construction suffered more cyberattacks than their critical sector counterparts.
The country will require certain organizations to report ransomware payments and communications within 72 hours after they're made or face potential civil penalties.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) recommend that organizations conduct thorough testing and manage costs, which can be hefty, before implementing the platforms.
An internal error led to public disclosure of reams of sensitive data that could be co-opted for follow-on cyberattacks.
This move comes less than a year after the United States banned Kaspersky products, out of the same fear that the company is under Russian government control.
The continent faces "relentless" military espionage, and increased cyber sabotage at the hands of authoritarian regimes, according to a high-ranking intelligence director.
US, UK, and Australian law enforcement have targeted a company called Zservers (and two of its administrators) for providing bulletproof hosting services to the infamous ransomware gang.
A collaboration with the FBI and law-enforcement agencies in Europe, the UK, and Australia, Operation Magnus has seized servers and source code related to the two malware families, which have stolen data from millions of victims worldwide.
The bill is broken up into several pieces, including ransomware reporting and securing smart devices, among other objectives.
Australia's Evolution Mining said its IT systems were infected with ransomware in an Aug. 8 cyber incident.
Significant upcoming legislation promises to tighten the screws on cyber incident response in Australia, mirroring CIRCIA in the US.
Both are accused of espionage and face a maximum penalty of 15 years imprisonment each for their crimes.
Australian cops arrest man found with a portable Wi-Fi access device in his carry-on luggage, allegedly used for standing up scam Wi-Fi networks on flights.
In an incident with direct parallels to the recent Ticketmaster compromise, an Aussie live events giant says it was breached via a third-party cloud provider, as ShinyHunters takes credit.
Australian businesses and individuals now face government fines and consequences for paying ransoms or interacting with assets owned by LockBitSupp, aka Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
Latest campaign underscores wide-ranging functionality and staying power of a decade-old piece of information-stealing malware.
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