Japan recently has become the latest US ally to join NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), in a move likely to anger Moscow.  Defense Minister Seiichi Hamada stated that Japan's Ministry of Defense (JMOD) will formally join…

Researchers have discovered a new Business Email Compromise (BEC) group that has impersonated legitimate attorneys, law firms, and debt collection services to con accounting employees into paying fake invoices. The group, dubbed Crimson Kingsnake by…

Medibank revealed that a cyberattack on the company's systems in October impacted 9.7 million current and former customers, with the number of those affected being significantly higher than previously thought. The company, one of Australia's largest…

LastPass published the findings of its fifth annual Psychology of Password report, which revealed that, despite increased cybersecurity education, password hygiene has not improved. Regardless of generational differences between Boomers, Millennials, and…

The RomCom threat group is actively targeting various English-speaking countries, especially the UK, with a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) using trojanized versions of popular software products such as SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, KeePass Open-…

According to the FBI, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks orchestrated by hacktivist groups have a minor impact on the services they target. As explained by the law enforcement agency in a private industry notification recently issued, this…

The website urlscan[.]io, which scans websites for suspicious and malicious URLs, is leaking "a trove of sensitive information," according to security researchers. Positive Security co-founder Fabian Bräunlein stated that sensitive URLs to shared…

Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) CyLab Security and Privacy Institute faculty, postdocs, and students presented their research at the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) seventh annual PrivacyCon on November 1. The event gathered various stakeholders,…

Malicious actors increasingly use memories as entry points for cyberattacks, thus igniting concerns about system-level security since memories are nearly found everywhere in electronics, and breaches are hard to detect. Hackers continue targeting almost…

Millions of Australians' privacy has been violated due to recent cyberattacks on Optus, Medibank, and other companies. Cybercriminals stole sensitive health and financial information that could be used to demand a ransom from victims, commit fraud, and…

According to the annual (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, more cybersecurity professionals are working than ever, but the field is still far from being fully staffed. Despite a record 4.7 million cybersecurity professionals working worldwide, there…

In the past year, Australia had one cybercrime report every 7 minutes, with ransomware being the most destructive threat faced by the country. State actors continue to pose a persistent threat to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and other agencies…