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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.

For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving Australia's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.

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Bank Info Security 1 year, 3 months ago

Top Australian Pension Funds Breached in Coordinated Hacks

Hackers Use Credential Stuffing to Steal AU$500,000, Breach 20,000 Member AccountsAustralia's largest pension funds faced coordinated credential attacks last week that compromised thousands of user accounts and led to the theft of at least AU$500,000 from four superannuation accounts. The affected funds included AustralianSuper, Rest and Australian Retirement Trust.

More from Bank Info Security 8 Apr 2025, 10:30 a.m. Australia Breach Compromise Credentials Theft

Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States have published a joint advisory about the risks associated with a technique called fast flux that has been adopted by threat actors to obscure a command-and-control (C2) channel

More from The Hacker News 8 Apr 2025, 1:40 a.m. America Australia Canada CISA Command and Control DNS FBI Malware New Zealand Phishing Threat Actor