Australian Signals Directorate
Private school students’ personal data proves prime target for hackers
Cybercriminals see private schools as increasingly attractive extortion targets and are threatening to publish sensitive data on the dark web.
- by Matthew Knott
Latest
Australia takes rare step of blaming China for backing cyberattacks
It is the first time Australian agencies have taken the lead in attributing cyberattacks to hacking group APT40 and naming the Ministry of State Security as a sponsor of the operations.
- by David Crowe
Exclusive
Cybersecurity
How this small non-profit group beat a malicious cyberattack
Hackers attempted to commit credit card fraud against UN Women Australia, but its chief executive says the group managed to beat the attackers with the help of its technology partners.
- by David Swan
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Cybersecurity
Police investigate large-scale healthcare data breach at MediSecure
Federal police are investigating after the Melbourne-based healthcare business was targeted in a ransomware data breach.
- by David Swan and Jessica McSweeney
Mortgage lender suffers hack, credit card details published on dark web
Firstmac customers are being warned they may need to replace their identity documents after copies of them were stolen by a ransomware gang.
- by David Swan
Unmasked: Notorious Russian cyber criminal who plundered hospitals with ransomware
Attacks by the Lockbit ransomware operation targeted over 100 hospitals and healthcare companies worldwide. Now the world knows Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev is the mastermind.
- by Rob Harris
Editorial
Cybersecurity
Fourteen months to out Medibank hacker is too long
The Albanese government’s naming of a Russian cyber thief responsible for the 2022 Medibank Private hack is a belated but welcome first in combating the rampant increase in cybercrime.
- The Herald's View
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Cybersecurity
St Vincent’s Health falls victim to cyberattack
The hospital and aged care provider says it is urgently investigating what data has been stolen.
- by David Swan
Hackers’ honeypot: customer data storage laws set to be wound back
Businesses will be forced to report hacks to the government as part of a sweeping $600 million cybersecurity plan.
- by Matthew Knott
Exclusive
Cybersecurity
‘Stop hackers in their tracks’: Corporate giants muscle up against cyber threats
A new National Cyber Intel Partnership will see major telcos, banks and other companies working together to proactively block online scams and malware aimed at defrauding Australians.
- by Lisa Visentin
The Reporter podcast: Spy Base Echelon
This week on The Reporter podcast, Gary Adshead tells Michael Thomson the story of one of the most secret spy bases in the world.
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