Seven Australian universities targeted in global hacking campaign
At least seven Australian universities have been attacked by cyber criminals in a global action targeting researchers.
At least seven Australian universities have been attacked by cyber criminals in a global action targeting researchers.
A criminal splinter faction from a pirate symbology-obsessed Nigerian 'confraternity' has been running business email compromise scams for hundreds of thousands of dollars targeting the global maritime industry, according to security researchers who have been tracing the 'GOLD GALLEON' group and trying to derail its scams in real time.
Just as things started to cool off around the WannaCry attack and businesses started to operate normally again, IT professionals were thrown back into disarray with the NotPetya malware attack
Australia is no stranger to cyber security attacks and breaches across businesses and government organisations.
A report by Dell SecureWorks on Wednesday debunked the idea that the newly discovered Duqu Trojan is related to last year's Stuxnet worm or was created by the same authors.
For more than 24 hours this week, it was a question that very few security experts could answer: Who had knocked the world's worst spam botnet offline?
Vendor now in closer competition with the likes of Symantec
A hacker who claims he was behind a fast-spreading e-mail worm that crippled corporate networks last week said that the worm was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool.
An informal, low-lying group of sharp minds might be the world's best defence against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, but legal uncertainty is hindering their capabilities.
Criminal cyber gangs must be harried, hounded and hunted until they're driven out of business, a noted botnet researcher said today as he prepared to pitch a new anti-malware strategy later this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.