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AU Info and Cyber Security News Last Week 2023-11-27

Australian Cyber News Last Week – November 27th, 2023: Well, that was a busy week. The Australian government’s release of the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. I wrote up the TissuePath breach and followed down a rabbit hole of Core Desktop and AlphV (Black Cat). Optus CEO resigns, Changes to the SOCI act, Federal whole-of-government zero trust target, scale back of Metadata retention, and two-year delay on banning ransomware payments.

Australian InfoSec Incidents and Audits Issues

Incident: TissuPath data breach victim upset by delayed notification | ABC News (Australia)

Australian Pathology Ransomware Attack, 14 November 2023: Australian pathology company Tissupath, reported a ransomware attack at a third-party IT supplier, Core Desktop. About 130,000 victims of a data hack at pathology company TissuPath in August involving referrals issued between 2011 and 2020 was to blame.

Incident: Major Australian port operator shuts down amid cyber security incident, impacting goods in and out of the country | ABC News (Australia)

Australian Ports Cyber Attack, 11 November 2023: Major Australian port operator DP World Australia shuts down amid cyber security incident, impacting goods in and out of the country. Operator failed to fix a critical IT vulnerability; the patch had been released over a month earlier.

Incident: SA Health patients caught up in data breach of third-party platform Personify Care | ABC News (Australia)

Australian Patient Data, 28 October 2023: SA Health patients caught up in data breach of third-party platform Personify Care. Health information of 121 patients and the names and phone numbers of about 12,000 others was deleted by an “unauthorised third party.

Incident: The Super SA data hack impacted thousands but took two months to come to light. Here’s what we know | ABC News (Australia)

Australian Health Insurer Hacked, 28 October 2023: The Super SA data hack impacted thousands but took two months to come to light. Here’s what we know. 14,011 members may have been impacted by a cyber security incident involving a former third-party service provider.

Incident: Ransomware gang posts 30GB of data it claims belongs to Victorian real estate group | cyberdaily.au

Australian Real Estate Ransomware Attack, 04 October 2023: Ransomware gang posts 30GB of data it claims belongs to Victorian real estate group. Ragnar Locker gang is claiming to have breached Network Pacific Real Estate following a failure in negotiations.

Incident: Russian ransomware gang AlphV breaches Core Desktop, a South Melbourne IT services company | ABC News (Australia)

Australian IT Services Ransomware Attack, 05 September 2023: Russian ransomware gang AlphV breaches Core Desktop, a South Melbourne IT services company. TissuPath, Strata Plan and Barry Plant Blackburn were all clients of Core Desktop.

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