Phishing

Phishing has long been one of the most pervasive cyberthreats, and it grows every year. Phishing did not slow down in 2021: the Zscaler ThreatLabz research team saw a 29% increase in phishing attempts globally over the course of 2021 based on data from billions of blocked attacks across the Zscaler cloud. Phishing is rising […]

State-sponsored exfiltrators are setting up free websites that look and feel like roboticised republishing aggregators.

Scam techniques that rely on human nature are increasingly being executed via technology. Here are five that recorded big increases in 2021.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre received more than 67,500 cyberattack reports during 2020-21. That’s one every eight minutes.

Cyber security incidents are increasing in frequency, scale and sophistication, and are a threat to Australia’s economic prosperity and national interests.

The fake emails ask you to click a link to verify your identity using a ‘secure form’ that goes to a page requesting personal information and banking details.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has ramped up its fight against malicious cyber activity to protect local families, businesses, and the health sector, according to defence minister Linda Reynolds. Reynolds on Tuesday said the Australian Signals Directorate has been engaging with hospitals and health service providers across Australia as they respond to the coronavirus. […]

A new crisis communications program has been released to help government departments and agencies ensure emails regarding the coronavirus pandemic arrive in inboxes rather than spam folders.

Researchers at CSIRO’s Data61 have developed a public dataset that could help cybersecurity specialists predict future cyberattacks. It comes days after numerous hospitals across Victoria were victims of security attacks.

There were 964 data breaches reported to the federal regulator in the first year of mandatory reporting rules and “malicious or criminal attacks” were behind 60% of cases, with most of the remainder caused by human error and only 5% blamed on malfunctions.

Cyber attacks continue to rise, but the number of significant breaches of government systems is going down.

The massive cyber attack against the US government is not an unusual event. Such attacks happen all the time, but victims either don’t realise or refuse to share the valuable threat intelligence that is vital to the global fight against cyber attacks.

If a US military agency can have its Twitter account hacked, Australian departments are at least as vulnerable. Here’s how to prevent it — as much as anyone can.