Bank Info Security: In an alert, the agency notes hackers posing as ACSC employees are sending emails requesting that recipients download antivirus software. When the victim clicks on a link, malicious code that can steal banking credentials is downloaded onto the compromised device.
Yahoo Finance: As reported by Business Insider Australia , the exchange revealed the names and email addresses of over 270,000 users when it sent out mass emails. The error saw names and addresses placed in the “to” section rather than individually addressing each recipient or using blind carbon copy.
Investor Daily: The prudential regulator has unveiled its cyber-security strategy for 2020-24, which seeks to lift security standards and introduce higher accountability where companies fail to meet their requirements.
The Guardian: Isentia, which boasts it has “most government departments and large corporations” as clients in Australia, told the Australian Stock Exchange on Tuesday it is “urgently investigating a cybersecurity incident” that was “disrupting services” involving its media portal – a service customers use to see media reporting on them, or issues of interest to them, and find journalists.
The Sydney Morning Herald: Politicians and their staff face stricter rules around use of personal phones on parliamentary networks as it emerged a state actor was the likely culprit behind a second major cyber attack in 2019.
IT News: PwC Australia has created a new business unit bringing together cyber, digital trust and digital law teams from across the firm to bolster the services it offers clients navigating the cyber security and regulatory landscape.
The Sydney Morning Herald: Macquarie Group and Commonwealth Bank are facing fresh scrutiny of their oversight of anti-money laundering laws after it emerged that overseas banks had reported close to $US167 million ($230m) of potential dirty money transactions flowing through the two Australian banks.
ABC: Foreign government cyber-attacks on Australia have increased further since June, when Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed Australian organisations were under sustained digital assault.
Yahoo News: Federal police and organised crime investigators will be empowered to kick down the digital door of criminals hiding in the dark web under a $1.7 billion government cyber security strategy.
Computer weekly: An industry panel appointed by the Australian government to provide inputs on the country’s 2020 cyber security strategy has called for clear consequences for cyber attacks targeted at Australia, among other recommendations.
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