A former IT employee at a prestigious Sydney girls school searched the term “teen jailbait” on the dark web to find child abuse material depicting girls between the ages of 10 and 15, a court has been told. Michael Thomas Mowbray was working as an IT officer at North SydneyContinue Reading
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
A popular probiotic drink brand has confirmed it has fallen victim to a cyber attack that reportedly led to 95GBs of data being leaked onto the dark web. The alleged hackers appear to be linked to DragonLeaks and have claim to have obtained Yakult’s company database, contracts and passports amongContinue Reading
Smirking and laughing while taking a dig at a devastated small business owner was likely not the response Australians expected from the boss of Optus on the day its network collapsed. But that’s precisely what Chief Executive Officer Kelly Bayer Rosmarin did, marking the beginning of the end of herContinue Reading
A terrifying new porn trend is sweeping Australian schools at an alarming rate. Parents are being warned about new AI technology which allows users to seamlessly put one person’s face onto another’s body, known as ‘deepfakes’. While it might sound like a simple bit of Snapchat or TikTok fun, theContinue Reading
A terrifying new porn trend is sweeping Australian schools at an alarming rate. Parents are being warned about new AI technology which allows users to seamlessly put one person’s face onto another’s body, known as ‘deepfakes’. While it might sound like a simple bit of Snapchat or TikTok fun, theContinue Reading
A list of the most common passwords for 2023 has been released, and many of them can be hacked in less than a second. Global password manager NordPass trawled 10.9 terabytes of publicly available databases, including those on the dark web that are used by cybercriminals to infiltrate and stealContinue Reading
Two people have been charged over their alleged involvement in a dark web drug trafficking scheme operating out of Melbourne’s outer southeastern suburbs. Victoria Police’s Major Drug Squad launched an investigation in June after detecting more than 150 parcels containing illicit drugs, linked to a vendor operating on the darkContinue Reading
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been revealed as one of the government agencies affected by a cyberattack on a national law firm. HWL Ebsworth was first targeted in a major cyber breach in April this year, during which data was stolen from multiple government departments. According to 9 News,Continue Reading