High Alert Volume and Downtime Challenge Security Teams
Illumio has released The 2025 Global Cloud Detection and Response Report, based on a global survey of 1,150 cybersecurity leaders, including 150 from Australia. The…
Month: October 2025
Ansell has data accessed by unknown attackers
Ansell, a maker of personal protective equipment (PPE) like gloves, has disclosed a cyber incident where unknown attackers exploited vulnerabilities to access company data. The…
Australian Government Annual Cyber Threat Report released
The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre’s (ASD’s ACSC’s) Annual Cyber Threat Report (ACTR) 2024–25 is now available. The average Australian household has over a dozen…
Microsoft restrains exploited legacy IE mode in Edge browser
Threat actors have worked around the security enhancements in Microsoft’s Edge web browser, by simply using social engineering to tell users to enter the legacy…
Hackers Can Bypass OpenAI Guardrails Framework Using a Simple Prompt Injection Technique
OpenAI’s newly launched Guardrails framework, designed to enhance AI safety by detecting harmful behaviors, has been swiftly compromised by researchers using basic prompt injection methods.…
Banking malware used GitHub for persistence
GitHub has removed malicious code repositories that acted as command and control (C2) infrastructure for a banking information stealer, after being notified by McAfee security…
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
That suggests anyone could set up similar hardware somewhere else in the world and likely obtain their own collection of sensitive information. After all, the…
Researchers break OpenAI guardrails | Malwarebytes
The maker of ChatGPT released a toolkit to help protect its AI from attack earlier this month. Almost immediately, someone broke it. On October 6,…
The Government Solution to AI Inequality Might Be UBI + Really Good Games
Or maybe 99-1. UBI is an obvious choice for calming the masses when the world turns into a lopsided 90-10 barbell. But I don’t think…
Axis Communications Vulnerability Exposes Azure Storage Account Credentials
A critical vulnerability in Axis Communications’ Autodesk Revit plugin has exposed Azure Storage Account credentials, creating significant security risks for customers and potentially enabling supply…
Phishing Scams Exploit New York’s Inflation Refund Program
A warning from the New York State on their website informs visitors that: “Scammers are calling, mailing, and texting taxpayers about income tax refunds, including…
Fortra cops to exploitation of GoAnywhere file-transfer service defect
Fortra, in its most forceful admission yet, confirmed a maximum-severity defect it disclosed in GoAnywhere MFT has been actively exploited in attacks, yet researchers are…