Ventia takes systems offline to contain cyber attack

Ventia has taken an undisclosed number of “key systems” offline to contain a cyber security incident. The listed company, which provides long-term operation, maintenance, and management for critical public and private assets and infrastructure, disclosed the incident on Saturday. Read Read More …

The five-day job: A BlackByte ransomware intrusion case study

As ransomware attacks continue to grow in number and sophistication, threat actors can quickly impact business operations if organizations are not well prepared. In a recent investigation by Microsoft Incident Response (previously known as Microsoft Detection and Response Team – Read More …

Australian horse riding organisations caught up in cyber attack impacting 10,000 people

Cyber criminals have targeted yet another Australian small business by stealing and leaking the data of 10,000 people. Last month, the data of a little-known company called Event Secretary was published on an online forum. Unfortunately, Event Secretary was the Read More …

Japan’s biggest port hit by suspected cyberattack, operations halted

The Port of Nagoya, Japan’s largest port by total cargo throughput and responsible for handling some of Toyota Motor Corp.’s car exports, has suffered a crippling system glitch, with the port operator saying Wednesday it suspects a cyberattack. As of Read More …

‘Pay and benefits compromised’ in Dublin Airport cyber attack

The pay and benefits details of nearly 2,000 staff members of daa, which operates Dublin Airport, were compromised due to a recent cyber attack on professional service provider Aon, the Sunday Times reported. A spokesperson said that as a result Read More …

More sensitive Optus data leaked in major cyberattack on law firm

Optus has been caught up in another major cyberattack, with sensitive information about a privacy watchdog investigation into the mobile-phone company breached by Russian hackers. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is one of dozens of government departments and Read More …

Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military

Dozor-Teleport, the satellite system’s operator, switched some users to terrestrial networks during the outage, according to JD Work, a cyberspace professor at the National Defense University. Analyst Doug Madory of Kentik, which monitors online traffic, said one network was taken Read More …

Israel helped UAE fend off major cyberattack

Israel recently helped the UAE fend off a serious DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyberattack, UAE cyber chief Muhammad al-Kuwaiti said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Tel Aviv Cyber Week Conference, he said, “Thank God for the Abraham Accords… Cybersecurity Read More …