Scammers are calling people and pretending to be from Australia’s National Anti-Scam Centre. They tell you that your phone number is being used in a scam in China and offer to help you ‘clear your record’. These scammers work hard to gain your trust and then try to...
Australians are being warned to be on the lookout for even more scams as we enter tax season – a prime period for cybercriminals to target unwary individuals and businesses. AUSCERT, Australia’s first computer emergency response team, says it has seen an increase...
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a warning to be on the lookout for loyalty point SMS phishing messages (smishing). The ACMA has witnessed a sharp rise in reports of shopping points and rewards-based SMS scams. These scams...
Tangerine Telecom, a challenger retail service provider, says a legacy customer database containing details of 232,000 current and former customers was accessed by an unknown party. This incident occurred on the 18th of February, and the management team learned of...
What Has Happened? Australia's largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider has fallen victim to a cyberattack. This attack was discovered on the 19th of December, and it has been carried out in the same way as a 2022 data breach that crippled private...
Cybercriminals are ramping up efforts to scam Australians out of their money ahead of Christmas, with plans to prey on stressed-out families. Westpac has issued a warning to be extra careful around scams this festive season, as new data reveals that buying and...
Scammers are increasingly using a range of alarming tactics to threaten, intimidate and steal from Chinese students living and studying in Australia, the National Anti-Scam Centre has warned. Reports of scammers posing as Chinese police to target young people...
QR codes are fast and easy to create, making it even easier for cybercriminals to steal your information or load malware onto your device. Here are some common QR code scams that you should look out for. 1. Email Scams Scammers often send phishing emails that...
What Has Happened? The University of Sydney has announced they have experienced an attack in their supply chain, this occurs when an attack and/or a data breach has occurred on an organisation's third-party service providers. This has resulted in the exposure of...
As many Australians have experienced recently, Genevieve had her data leaked many years ago. She promptly changed her passwords, and even though she received some strange calls and emails, she thought that was the end of it. Until she received one email that made...
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