Tag: Australia
Australian Privacy Regulator Slams Clearview AI for Breaching Users’ Privacy
Australia's privacy watchdog, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), stated that Clearview AI had violated privacy laws by harvesting users’ sensitive information...
Australia Unveils Ransomware Action Plan to Combat Cyberattacks
With rising state-sponsored ransomware operators and attacks becoming widespread, the Australian government has announced a Ransomware Action Plan to tackle the rising cyberthreats. The...
Australia, U.K., and U.S. Come Together in a Trilateral Security Partnership
While the cyberthreat landscape is crossing boundaries, multiple nations are coming together to safeguard the cybersecurity landscape. Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. recently...
Australia Passes Surveillance Legislation (Identify and Disrupt) Amendment Bill 2020
Australia is constantly trying to boost its cybersecurity capabilities to mitigate rising threats of remote access scams and identity thefts. The government recently passed...
Cybersecurity Posture of Commonwealth Entities Continues to Improve: Report
Last year, owing to the rapid surge in cybercriminal activities in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that the country had allocated a budget...
Identity Theft Scams in Australia Increased by 84% in 2020: ACCC...
Amid evolving cybersecurity threats during the pandemic and the fear of compliance audit failure, a research released in October 2020 by cybersecurity firm Thycotic...
Night Blood: A Global Ransomware Campaign Run by APT Group TA505
The TA505, a Russian-speaking APT group, created a buzz early last year with a devastating ransomware attack on the Maastricht University (UM) in the...
NSW Government Proposes Mandatory Notification of Data Breach Scheme
The organizations in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, would mandatorily need to report data breaches to the law enforcement authorities. The NSW government recently...
Telstra Service Provider Hit with a Cyberattack; Tens of Thousands of...
Keeping a close eye on the rising number of phishing attacks on Australians amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, in September 2020, Telstra launched a pilot...
Chinese State-sponsored Cybercriminals Got an “Evil Eye” on Uyghur Community
Threat intelligence analysts from Facebook disrupted cyber espionage campaigns by Chinese state-sponsored cybercriminal groups. Tracked as “Earth Empusa” or “Evil Eye,” the criminal group is allegedly...
