University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info
Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal information of staff and students. The…
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CASA exploring AI for digital asset operations
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is exploring ways to introduce AI capability for the management its digital assets. The authority has called on technology…
ICE Seeks Cyber Upgrade to Better Surveil and Investigate Its Employees
As the White House pushes to intensify internal leak investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is quietly renewing a cybersecurity contract that governs how employee activity…
NBN Co’s 2Gbps services are too fast for ACCC to monitor
NBN Co’s new 2Gbps residential internet plans are too fast to be monitored with SamKnows boxes for the competition watchdog’s speed testing program. Image credit:…
Lazarus Group Embed New BeaverTail Variant in Developer Tools – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
On Thursday, December 18, 2025, cybersecurity firm Darktrace released new research regarding a dangerous new variant of BeaverTail malware, a JavaScript-based information stealer. Linked to…
France Alleges ‘Foreign Interference’ In Ferry Malware Case
France is investigating whether “foreign interference” was behind remote access trojan (RAT) malware that was discovered on a passenger ferry. The ferry malware was “capable…
Uncensored Darknet AI Assistant at the Service of Criminals and Terrorists
DIG AI: Uncensored Darknet AI Assistant at the Service of Criminals and Terrorists Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2025 Resecurity reports a Q4 2025 surge in…
The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams
The Chinese-language artificial intelligence app Haotian is so effective that it’s made millions of dollars selling its face-swapping technology on Telegram. The service integrates easily…
China-Aligned Threat Group Uses Windows Group Policy to Deploy Espionage Malware
Dec 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cloud Security A previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster dubbed LongNosedGoblin has been attributed to a series of cyber attacks targeting…
U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks input on criminal penalties for deepfakes
The U.S. Sentencing Commission is issuing preliminary sentencing guidelines for criminal offenses under the Take It Down Act, a law passed earlier this year to…
New password spraying attacks target Cisco, PAN VPN gateways
An automated campaign is targeting multiple VPN platforms, with credential-based attacks being observed on Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect and Cisco SSL VPN. On December 11, threat…
RansomHouse RaaS Service Upgraded with Double Extortion Strategy that Steals and Encrypt Data
RansomHouse has emerged as a significant threat in the ransomware landscape, operated by a group tracked as Jolly Scorpius. This ransomware-as-a-service platform combines data theft…