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A cybercrime group threatens to expose personal details of 5.7 million Qantas customers unless Salesforce meets their urgent ransom demands by 3pm AEST today.

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‘Should have paid’: Qantas ransom update

A notorious cyberhacker group threatening to leak the personal data of 5.7 million Qantas customers have issued a major update.

An example of the 'oi mate' scam text now targeting Australians. Picture: news.com.au

Aussies warned: Do not open this text

It reads like a mate asking you about the pokies, but Aussies are warned to delete this chummy text immediately.

Community members gather for a vigil honoring the life of Iryna Zarutska, who was fatally stabbed on a commuter train last month, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

Australia’s demand after refugee killing

Australia has made a major move following a widely circulated video documenting the killing of a Ukrainian refugee in New York.

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 13, 2024: Generic photo of Qantas terminal and Tullamarine Airport. Qantas engineers are targeting one of the busiest travel days of the year to stage another strike in their ongoing campaign for a 25 per cent pay rise., Picture: NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

‘Reach out’: Qantas’ latest hacker threat

Qantas has been targeted by an infamous hacker group to negotiate a ransom over supposedly stolen customer data.

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Post and boast, youth crime. Screen shot from Instagram video of youth holding up Audi key to a presumably stolen car speeding in a car. Photo: aus_best_creepas / Instagram

‘Just not on’: Crimfluencer crackdown

Western Australia will become the latest state to pass “post and boast” laws aimed at punishing those who glorify criminal activity online.

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - June 24, 2025: Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on

Crackdown on kids viewing porn, violent vids

Big tech companies have been warned to tighten rules to prevent kids from watching harmful content like porn, violence, and materials which promote self-harm.

Models that did not understand the prompt or posed a similar issue were excluded from each pertinent data set in the study. Picture: iStock

AI ‘willing to let humans die to survive’

A chilling AI study has alarmed experts and even drawn concern from Elon Musk over what it would take for the technology to wipe out humans.

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Delete yourself from the internet right now

There’s a simple way many Australians are getting scammed online, and experts are advising us to take this crucial step immediately.

Change passwords NOW: 16 billion leaked logins surface

Change passwords NOW: 16 billion leaked logins surface

A staggering 16 billion passwords and logins to Apple, Facebook, Google, and various US government services have been leaked online, triggering…

(FILES) This photo taken on February 12, 2023 in Brussels shows reflexions on a smartphone screen of logos of online platforms google, facebook, linkedin, Amazon, Apple store and Tiktok as the European Commission announced last September the world's biggest digital firms, identified as

16bn logins leaked, change password now

In what experts call a “blueprint for mass exploitation,” 16 billion passwords have been leaked online, according to bombshell new research.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos September 10, 2024: Snapchat , Instagram, YouTube, Roblox and tik tok and X (Twitter). The Albanese government says it will introduce legislation to enforce age restrictions on social media before the next federal election, but is still mulling over what that age it should be restricted to. Picture: NewsWire / Aaron Francis

Key admission in social media ban update

The brains tasked with finding a way to enforce Australia’s world-leading social media ban have made a big admission ahead of a major update.

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Boy George picked a fight with JK Rowling on X over the Harry Potter author’s controversial views on the transgender community.

Boy George clashes with ‘bully’ JK Rowling over trans rights

A clash between Boy George and JK Rowling over transgender rights has turned heated, with the pair trading sharp comments in a public war of words.

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WhatsApp has finally buckled. Photo: istock

WhatsApp will never be the same again

It’s been a long time coming but one of the world’s biggest messaging platforms has finally turned its back on its own founding mantra.

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emerging 11-year-old Aussie chess prodigy Reyaansh Chakrabarty composite.Picture: NewsWire

Is this Aussie 11yo the next world champ?

A rising Aussie chess whiz talks about beating grandmasters and what he loves about the hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit.

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