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Australian IT Pros Urged to Guard Against Chinese Cybersecurity Threats
The Australian Signals Directorate and the Australian Cyber Security Centre have joined cybersecurity institutions from the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand in warning local technology professionals to beware of threat actors affiliated with China, including Salt Typhoon, infiltrating their critical communications infrastructure. The news comes weeks after the Australian Signals Directorate’s Annual Cyber Threat Report 2023-2024, where the agency warned…
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UK banks weathered the storm of cyber threats in 2024 – here’s why
Large, regulated financial institutions have seen a major drop in the number of cyber attacks over the last year, following moves by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to tighten regulations around operational resilience. According to data obtained by Hack The Box via Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, the FCA received 101 incident notifications from regulated firms between January 1 and…
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The Rise in Nation-State Cyber Threats
Today’s threat landscape includes nation-state actors as well as attackers looking to test their skills or turn a profit. AT ISC2 Security Conference in Las Vegas, CISA advisor and former New York Times cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth took the stage to discuss what has changed over the last 10 years of cyber warfare. Her presentation was the capstone of the…
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Mobile, IoT, and OT Cyber Threats Surge in 2024
A new report from cloud security company Zscaler sheds light on the growing mobile threats on Android operating systems, as well as IoT and OT devices threats. The findings come as more than 60% of the global Internet traffic is now generated by mobile devices and financially-oriented mobile threats have grown by 111% over the last year. A list of…
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Why evolving cyber threats mean small businesses are ransomware targets – Computerworld
Dark Matter’s powerful fictional short film based on real events, Butterfly, goes inside the experience of a small business as its world is turned upside down by ransomware. It’s an experience shared by a growing number of small businesses – half experienced some form of cybersecurity breach or attack in the last 12 months. Yet not all want to tell…
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Obsidian Security Warns of Rising SaaS Threats to Enterprises
SaaS environments are emerging as an “unaddressed blind spot” in enterprise cyber security for Australian and APAC organisations, according to SaaS security management firm Obsidian Security. This issue is partially attributed to confusion around the shared responsibility model in SaaS contracts. In September, Obsidian Security, which announced that it is expanding operations across Australia and APAC, said it expects a…
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Cracking open insider threats | ITPro
Cybersecurity teams face a constant battle of ensuring their company is shored up in the right places. Facing down increasingly sophisticated and persistent threat actors, there’s every reason to focus on one’s perimeter to shield oneself against external threats. But insider threats – attacks carried out from within an organization’s environment – must also be part of any business’s security…
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Why you should always be wary of insider threats: A disgruntled employee at a US industrial firm deleted backups and locked IT admins out of workstations in a failed data extortion attempt
A disgruntled IT worker at a national industrial company in the US has been arrested after he launched an extortion campaign targeting his former employer in 2023. Daniel Rhyne was a core infrastructure engineer at an unnamed US-based industrial firm, and attempted to extort his company for $750,000 worth of Bitcoin. According to a press release issued by the US…
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UK law firms are facing a torrent of cyber threats – here’s why
Cyber attacks against UK law firms have surged in the last year, according to new research from Lubbock Fine. A study from the business advisory firm found there were 954 successful attacks against organizations in the legal sector, marking an increase on the 538 recorded in the year prior. A key factor in this, the study noted, is that cyber…
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Cybersecurity spending is going to surge in 2025 – and AI threats are a key factor
Cybersecurity spending will continue rising in the year ahead amidst heightened concerns about the threat of AI, according to new research from Gartner. Research from the consultancy expects global information security end-user spending to reach $183.9 billion in 2024, rising by 15.1% to $212 billion in 2025. A key factor in this spending growth, Gartner said, is the continued adoption…
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