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A scathing report by Australia's Information Commissioner details how misconfigurations and missed alerts allowed a hacker to breach Medibank and steal data from over 9 million people. In October 2022, Australian health insurance provider Medibank disclosed that it had suffered a cyberattack that disrupted the company's operations.

A controversial proposal put forth by the European Union to scan users' private messages for detection child sexual abuse material (CSAM) poses severe risks to end-to-end encryption (E2EE), warned...

In today’s dynamic threat environment, traditional security perimeters are proving to be increasingly vulnerable. Ray Fernandez, writing for TechRepublic Premium, presents an in-depth exploration...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint in US federal court against Adobe and two executives, Maninder Sawhney and David Wadhwani, for deceptive practices related to their subscription plans. Defendants Sawhney, Senior Vice President of Digital Go To Market & Sales at Adobe, and Wadhwani, President of Digital Media Business at Adobe, are accused of knowing about these violations yet continuing the same unlawful practices.

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Two men have pleaded guilty to hacking into a federal law enforcement database to steal personal information of those they were extorting. The two men, Sagar Steven Singh and Nicholas Ceraolo are members of a hacking group called "ViLE," which accessed the sensitive personal information from the portal and then used it to blackmail the victims, threatening to publish the sensitive data unless they were paid.

The 2022 Medibank data breach / extortion attack perpetrated by the REvil ransomware group started by the attackers leveraging login credentials stolen from a private computer of an employee of a Medibank's IT contractor. According to a statement by the Australian Information Commissioner filed with the Federal Court of Australia, the credentials were stolen by way of infostealer malware, after that employee "Saved his Medibank username and password for a number of Medibank accounts to his personal internet browser profile on the work computer he used to provide IT services to Medibank", and then signed into his internet browser profile on his personal computer.

Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users with free or pirated versions of commercial software to deliver a malware loader called Hijack Loader, which then deploys an information stealer known...

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