Australia: Rogue AI agents worked together for months to gain access to government health data

A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website. Communications between AI agents Read More …

More than 1 million users affected in Mathspace data breach across Australia and New Zealand

More than a million people, including students, school staff, and parents, have been affected following a data breach at Mathspace, according to the learning provider. The company said, in a blog post, “unauthorised parties had accessed an internal reporting system Read More …

Nichirei getting back online after cyberattack hit KFC supplies

Nichirei, the food distributor hit by a cyberattack that disrupted supplies to Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan and other outlets, said its systems are getting back online as it takes steps to remedy the disruption. The Tokyo-based provider of frozen food, ice and Read More …

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has revealed a tech support scam was the cause of the massive 2025 data breach at Australian airline Qantas and found the carrier didn’t breach its privacy obligations despite leaking personally identifiable information for 5.7 million customers. Read More …

Adelaide University new system designed to protect drones from cyber threats

Adelaide University researchers have initiated the development of a world-first cybersecurity system designed to protect drones from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. A new study led by the Industrial AI Research Centre and published in the international journal Computers and Industrial Read More …

Australia: Cyber attack takes major chicken processor Hazeldenes offline leaving businesses without meat

A cyber attack at major chicken meat processor Hazeldenes in central Victoria has led it to shutdown its wi-fi system on site, and a shortage of chicken at pubs and butchers across the state. Retail and industry have told the Read More …

New Zealand: Second health provider, Canopy Health, hit in major cyber attack

Patients caught up in the CanopyHealth data breach are furious that it took the company six months to tell them about it. On Monday, it was revealed the leading private provider doing breast cancer diagnosis and treatment took six months Read More …

Australia: Age verification errors see some under-16s retain access to banned social media platforms

It’s day one of the social media ban and, unsurprisingly, it hasn’t been a smooth launch. Many children have already been able to get around the ban in various ways, with age assurance systems misclassifying users and workarounds such as Read More …

Cyber Toufan leaks secret data on Iron Dome, Jericho missiles, and Australia’s Land 400 project

A hacking group believed to have ties to Iran has claimed responsibility for a massive cyberattack that exposed information linked to Australia’s $7 billion Land 400 defence program. The group, known as Cyber Toufan, says it accessed the data after Read More …