Date: 23/11/2022
The Smith Family says details of around 80,000 donors may have been exposed in hacking attack
The Smith Family charity has informed 80,000 donors their personal information has been accessed after a cyber attack. The hacker unsuccessfully attempted to steal money from the charity, which supports disadvantaged children. Information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, donation records and in some circumstances the first and last four digits of credit […]
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Date: 22/11/2022
Medibank hacker releases more private health information
The culprits behind the recent Medibank data breach have released more private health information on the Dark Web. After several days of silence online the hackers released their largest batch of data to date, with up to 1469 records being exposed. 9News has chosen to keep the name of the files and the health conditions […]
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Date: 16/11/2022
Researchers show techniques for malware persistence on F5 and Citrix load balancers
Over the past several years, hackers have targeted public-facing network devices such as routers, VPN concentrators, and load balancers to gain a foothold into corporate networks. While finding remote code execution vulnerabilities in such devices is not uncommon, incidents where attackers were able to deploy malware on them that can survive restarts or firmware upgrades […]
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Date: 15/11/2022
Russia behind Medibank breach: AFP
The Australian Federal Police have claimed the hackers behind Medibank’s data breach are located in Russia. The culprits are responsible for millions of customers’ data being exposed on the dark web. The commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Reece Kershaw announced at a media conference that authorities had flagged a group of “loosely affiliated” cyber […]
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Date: 10/11/2022
Medibank confirms names, addresses, birthdays posted to dark web by hackers after ransom deadline passes
Medibank confirms names, addresses, birthdays posted to dark web by hackers after ransom deadline passes Medibank has confirmed that cyber criminals have released customers’ personal data on a dark web forum following a data breach earlier this month. The information posted included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, Medicare numbers for customers […]
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Date: 04/11/2022
Hackers target Defence social media platform
Hackers target Defence social media platform ForceNet, a defence e-Communications platform has been the latest target in a new cyber attack. The platform, run by external ICT provider Dialog Information Technology, said there is no cause for major concern as no data of current or former staff had been put at risk. The Chief of […]
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