Telegram deleted 25 videos the South Korean Communications Standards Commission said depicted sex crimes, and regulators reported that site administrators pledged a "relationship of trust." The agency said it intends to establish a hotline to ensure urgent action on deepfakes.
Australia's largest provider of private health insurance says it expects to spend a total of AU$126 million, or $84.78 million, over a three-year period to upgrade its IT security. A Russia-based cybercriminal group hacked Medibank in October 2022.
A North Korean hacking team hastily pivoted from using publicly available cloud computing storage to its own infrastructure after security researchers unmasked a malware campaign. The group shifted from using cloud service including Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox to systems under its control.
Prominent North Korean hacker groups Kimsuky and Andariel have been targeting South Korea's construction and machinery sectors since January to steal classified information to help the country modernize its cities and factories, South Korean government agencies warned on Monday.
Australia's Western Sydney University said hackers exploited its Microsoft Office 365 environment to steal up to 580 terabytes of data. Breached data includes names, birthdates, health information, government identification documents, bank account information and superannuation details.
United States, British and South Korean government agencies blamed a North Korean espionage group for targeting their defense, aerospace and energy sectors to steal Western nuclear and military technologies to advance Kim Jong Un regime's military and nuclear ambitions.
The Australian cybersecurity agency is blaming a Chinese state-backed cyberespionage group, tracked as APT40, for persistent cyberattacks on Australian organizations to steal sensitive information. The group exploits known software vulnerabilities to compromise networks.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore said banks will phase out one-time passwords for bank account logins over the next three months for customers who use digital tokens to authenticate their identity. The move follows a rise in phishing scams that impersonate banks in messages to steal credentials.
A ransomware group that uses locker malware based on the leaked LockBit 3.0 ransomware builder compromised New Zealand's leading fitness equipment retailer. The DragonForce ransomware group on Tuesday said on its leak site that it stole 5.31 gigabytes of data Elite Fitness.
A Chinese state-sponsored group, tracked as RedJuliett, is using open-source VPN client SoftEther to target the infrastructure of about 75 organizations in government, academic and technology sectors in multiple countries. Most of the attacks appear to target Taiwan.
Hackers behind the leak of 10 million records from Australia's second-largest telecommunications carrier Optus exploited a vulnerability the company unwittingly inserted four years earlier into a web portal access control, said the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Law enforcement authorities in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan took down a cybercrime ring that used dozens of servers and hundreds of phishing pages across multiple jurisdictions to run a malware-enabled scam operation and steal tens of millions from victims' bank accounts.
A Singapore court has sentenced a former employee of NCS Group to two years and eight months in prison for accessing the company's software test environment and wiping 180 virtual servers months after his employment ended. The company detected the unauthorized access after he deleted the servers.
A likely Pakistani cyberespionage operation has expanded its tool set since it first targeted Indian officials, likely in 2016. That's probable evidence the threat actor has "seen a high degree of success," say researchers from Cisco Talos. They dubbed the threat actor "Cosmic Leopard."
Australian mining giant Northern Minerals says cybercriminals stole sensitive corporate secrets from its systems not long after the government forced several Chinese investors to divest their shares in the company. The incident did not have a material impact on Northern's operations or systems.
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