Cyber Security News Headlines

Australia’s cyber espionage agency is warning criminals are targeting the sensitive data of students in order to extort their parents.

“We took this action as a precautionary measure in response to system monitoring indicating a heightened threat level.”

Shredded rags, dirty plush toys and cheap pillows are just some of the bizarre items Australians are being sent in the mail as part of a scam growing in popularity.

The movements of US leaders can be tracked online through a fitness app their bodyguards use, an investigation by French media has revealed.

Funlab confirmed it is looking into a security breach after ransomware group Lynx listed the company on its leak site yesterday.

Cybercriminals used a fake email with just one letter different to her conveyancer’s to deceive the South Australian home buyer in May last year.

Investigations into the leak suggest names, email addresses, credit card data and log-in details have all been leaked.

The Australian government reported 63 breaches in the first half of the year.

Parents are being warned children as young as 12 years are being targeted to produce extreme sexual and violent content over the internet.

He posed as a 15-year-old YouTube star to lure them into his perverted trap then persistently blackmailed them to perform sex acts on camera.

Australians who swear by wearing a smartwatch could be vulnerable to hackers, a new Australian study has found.

Australia and New Zealand have agreed a “sufficiently severe” cyber attack would prompt mutual defence.

CrowdStrike is a multibillion-dollar cyber security company based in Austin, Texas. Its software is used by close to 30,000 businesses and is installed on millions of computers worldwide.

“This incident appears to violate every good software engineering practice we know,” he said.

Half of Australia’s population has been caught up in the cyber attack on MediSecure, but the company can’t afford to find out exactly who had their data stolen and notify them.

The personal data of thousands of people has been stolen after the Victorian Environmental Protection Authority’s (EPA) external contact centre was hacked.

The hacks against Australian private and public networks date back years, officials say.

Known by the online profile of ‘Beasty Boy’, he is accused of producing bestiality content and possessing child abuse material.

A cyber security expert said victims are being blackmailed with their data, internet browsing history or explicit images and videos.

The 17-year-old is accused of being behind a ranking system which categorised female students.