Australians are being urged to look out for suspicious credit and debit card charges labelled ‘Jet Frog’ that could precede major fraudulent transactions by criminals. A Sydneysider took to Reddit at the weekend to warn of a suspicious pending transaction they spotted on their online banking statement. It was forContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has vowed to look at any measures possible to protect businesses from scams after thousands of online shoppers had their credit card details stolen by hackers in a major coordinated attack. Large businesses including streaming platform Dan Murphy’s, Event Cinemas and Guzman Y Gomez were targeted by cybercriminalsContinue Reading
St Vincent’s Health has suffered a cyber attack, saying data has been stolen days ahead of Christmas. The country’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider said it began responding to a cyber security incident on Tuesday, notifying security experts and state and federal governments. “St Vincent’s immediately took stepsContinue Reading
A man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for purchasing stolen information from an online criminal marketplace on Wednesday. The 25-year-old man’s house in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba was searched in October 2022, after first coming to police attention in November 2020. While officers executedContinue Reading
Cybercriminals are ramping up efforts to scam Australians out of their money ahead of Christmas, with plans to prey on stressed-out families. Westpac has issued a warning to be extra careful around scams this festive season, as new data reveals that buying and selling scams are up a whopping 47Continue Reading
A Melbourne man has been charged over his alleged role as a “money mule” in a cyber scam, with federal police alleging he laundered more than $176,000 scammed from an Australian business. It is alleged that between June 2021 and May 2022, the 23-year-old man received $176,192 in suspected criminalContinue Reading
A law firm, used by the Victorian Government, has confirmed documents stolen in a data breach in April have been leaked onto the dark web. Data about government departments and agencies was leaked when HWL Ebsworth was targeted by threat actor “ALPHV/BlackCat”. An HWL Ebsworth update on their website, publishedContinue Reading
Accounting firm PwC has been under siege the past few weeks over a tax scandal and it’s just been dealt another blow as Russian hackers have obtained sensitive data. Late on Monday, the Australian Financial Review reported that PwC had been caught up in a cyber security breach. A notoriousContinue Reading
Aussies have been warned not become complacent with their online password security as new research reveals how most are exposing themselves to hacking and cyber attacks. New research from Telstra has revealed nearly 80 per cent of the nation uses the same password across multiple accounts, while one in fiveContinue Reading
A man has recorded the shocking moment the scammers who drained $130,000 from his bank account call him back after he exposed their plot. Paul Trefry was left devastated after the brazen criminals pretended to be from the ANZ bank, using a “spoofing” software to send messages from the bank’sContinue Reading