2022 saw a significant increase in cybersecurity awareness across corporations and communities in Australia. In the past 12 months, cyber attacks have accelerated, as forecast. These attacks have placed organisations in the spotlight and publicly challenged their reputations. Worst, they have impacted a large portion of Australia’s population. Cybercriminals pursued higher profile targets than before, […]
The cyber threat landscape is constantly in flux, with new threats emerging and old ones evolving. As technology advances, so do the methods that malicious actors use to gain access to sensitive information or launch disruptive attacks. Cyberattacks focusing on IoT-connected devices present an additional challenge for critical infrastructure organizations in 2023, due to the
Microsoft has released its third edition of Cyber Signals, a regular cyberthreat intelligence brief spotlighting security trends and insights gathered from Microsoft’s 43 trillion daily security signals and 8,500 security experts. This edition highlights new insights on the wider risks that converging IT, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Operational Technology (OT) systems pose to critical infrastructure, and
Every year, we look into our crystal balls and share our thoughts on what the next year in cyberthreats may look like. The Advanced Research Center team’s work has informed predictions spanning from hacktivism to cyberwar to the software supply chain. We started 2022 with an industry-wide vulnerability in Log4J, which was closely followed by
Financial services is among the industries that have been the heaviest hit by cybercrime — from the heyday of the Zeus and other banking trojans to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, modern phishing attacks, and ransomware. FinServ is a vital sector that plays a major role not only in the lives of people, but also in
The 2022 Singapore User Risk Report complements research from the 2022 Human Factor from Proofpoint. Since its inception, the Human Factor has explored a simple premise: that people—not technology—are the most critical variable in today’s cyber threats. Since then, this once-contrarian notion has become a widely acknowledged reality. Cyber attackers target people. They exploit people.
In the third quarter of 2022, Trellix delivered a new, powerful resource to support the future of extended detection and response (XDR) and cybersecurity. The Trellix Advanced Research Center, comprised of hundreds of elite security analysts and researchers was established to help customers detect, respond, and remediate the latest cybersecurity threats. Threat actors also made
I am pleased to present the third Annual Cyber Threat Report by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), a key part of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). Throughout its 75 year history, ASD has defended Australia from global threats and advanced our national interests. It remains at the frontline of defending our nation and keeping
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In the six months since the last Cloud Threat Report, Lacework Labs has seen a marked increase in efficiencies used by cybercriminals: speed is the name of the game. Identities continue to be a key target for attackers, and our findings indicate that the time to use those identities are shortening, consistently. We believe this
We are experiencing an extraordinary rise in the development and use of facial recognition technology (FRT) – in Australia and around the world. Yet, our laws were never drafted with this reality in mind. As a result, Australian law does not effectively regulate FRT: our law does not reliably uphold human rights, nor does it
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