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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission on Monday disclosed a security incident that involved Accellion software. An independent commission of the Australian government, ASIC is the national corporate regulator, overseeing enterprise and financial services and also tasked with the enforcement of laws designed to protect consumers, creditors, and investors in Australia.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted one of its servers was accessed without sanction and may have been digitally pawed by miscreants. The attack involved a server containing documents associated with Australian credit applications and the commission warned that "Some limited information may have been viewed by the threat actor." ASIC was at pains to add that it hadn't seen evidence of the forms and attachments being opened or downloaded.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revealed that one of its servers has been accessed by an unknown threat actor following a security breach. ASIC is an independent Australian government commission tasked with the regulation of insurance, securities, and financial services, as well with consumer protection as Australia's national corporate regulator.
The Australian government warns of an ongoing campaign impersonating the Australian Cyber Security Centre to infect targets with malware. "The Australian Cyber Security Centre warns some Australians are receiving phone calls or emails from scammers claiming to be ACSC employees and that the receiving person's computer has been compromised," the cybersecurity agency warned.
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A tech-support scammer making random phone calls in the hope of finding a victim called the cyber-crime squad of an Australian police force, which used the happy accident to document the con trick and inform the public on what to watch out for. The call was placed to the Financial and Cybercrime Investigation Branch in the state of South Australia, where the cops serve 1.75 million citizens.
Australia's government has proposed giving itself the power to take over private enterprises' response to cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure. The government proposes to develop baselines that critical industries can use to help them meet their obligations.
Australia's consumer watchdog launched court action against Google on Monday alleging the technology giant misled account holders about its use of their personal data. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's action in the Federal Court is the latest litigation Google has faced around the world over allegations of privacy breaches.
Australian beverage company Lion says it has found no evidence that hackers have stolen information from its systems, but the hackers claim they have and are threatening to leak it unless the company pays up. While Lion has not shared any technical information about the attack or the ransomware, the operators of the ransomware known as Sodinokibi and REvil claim to have breached the company's systems.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called a snap press conference to reveal that the nation is under cyber-attack by a state-based actor, but the nation's infosec advice agency says that while the attacker has gained access to some systems it has not conducted "Any disruptive or destructive activities within victim environments." Morrison said the attack has targeted government, key infrastructure and the private sector, and was sufficiently serious that he took the courteous-in-a-crisis, but not-compulsory step, of informing the leader of the opposition about the incident.