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...
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...
The 2023 State of Ransomware report reveals that global ransomware attacks have reached an all-time high and have shown no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Within one year (July 2022 – June 2023), there has been a total of 1,900 ransomware attacks within...
Threat researchers have recently witnessed a rise in cybercriminals using email-based quishing attacks to target users. At least one quishing campaign appears to be large-scale, long-running and dynamic, based on attack cadence and variations in the lures and...
In May, Lockbit, usually the reigning king of ransomware gangs, found a fierce competitor in MalasLocker. Last month witnessed a record number of 556 reported ransomware victims, with Italy and Russia becoming major targets and a significant increase in attacks on...
Sellers on online marketplaces such as Facebook and Gumtree are at an increased risk of becoming the target of scammers. National Australia Bank (NAB) Has released new customer data showing that online goods and services scams have increased by 66% in the past...
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