Australian Education Cyber Attack July 2021: NSW Education department hit by cyber attack just days before school term resumes. The attack had forced it to deactivate “a number of internal systems as a precaution.
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Australian Audit Fail June 2021: Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) finds cyber resilience unchanged since last year. Only one of 18 agency audited hits Essential Eight baseline.
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Australian Audit Fail May 2021<: Dozens of NSW councils still without basic cyber security controls, audit finds. Poor management of cyber security at 58 of the state’s 128 local councils, nine county councils and 13 joint organisations.
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Australian University Incident May 2021. UniSA locks down devices and Citrix solution after cyber attack. A number of PCs and laptops have been disabled, while Citrix VA is now unavailable.
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Western Australian Audit Report November 2020. WA registry system flaws force auditor to delay findings by 18 months. ‘Highly unusual step’ taken to protect foundational system.
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Australia Medical System Incident May 2021: SA hospital staff put on alert after computer glitch adds digit to medication dosages. SA Health says it’s not aware of any “adverse clinical outcomes”
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Australia Political Ransomware Attack May 2021: The NSW branch of the Labor Party appears to have suffered a Windows ransomware attack, with the Avaddon strain having been used to attack the party’s network. Photocopies of an Australian passport, a driver’s licence and a number of other documents have been posted online.
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Australia Software Company Cyberattack April 2021: Enterprises need to change passwords following Australian privilege access management company ClickStudios, Passwordstate attack. Advises “please reset all the stored passwords, VPNs/Firewall/Switches, local accounts or any server passwords”
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Australian Ransomware Attack April 2021: Ransomware attack to blame for Federal Group’s casino pokies outage in Tasmania has impacted gambling and hotel operations since April 3
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Australian Telco Outage April 2021: Vodafone Australia hit by nationwide 4G outage. Mobile data, voice services impacted for 10 hours.
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Australian Winery Ransomware Attack March 2021: Taylor’s Estate Winery Targeted By Hackers. South Australia Clare Valley winery was hit by a ransomware attack, incapacitating the business.
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Australian Media Ransomware Attack March 2021: Channel Nine confirms live broadcasts disrupted by cyber attack, warns ransomware recovery ‘will take time’.
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Australian Hospital Cyber Attack March 2021: Melbourne’s Eastern Health hit by suspected cyber attack. Many systems still offline which includes the Box Hill and Maroondah Hospitals.
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Australian Education Outage February 2021: Melbourne’s RMIT University suspends classes after suffering IT outage. Reportedly the significant cyber attack was caused by a phishing scam.
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Australian Politician DNS Redirect January 2021. Pauline Hanson’s website redirected to refugee council site. Ms Hanson’s mistake of allowing her DNS registration to lapse has complicated fixing the link
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Australian Ransomware Attack January 2021: Ransomware attack forces three-week shutdown of NT Government Supplier’s IT system. Insists the integrity and confidentiality of government data was never compromised.
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Australian Malware Breach December 2020 – NSW Health, Rio Tinto, Serco named as victims of massive global SolarWinds hack attack. NSW Health appears to have been infected with potentially dangerous Russian malware since June.
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Australian Ransomware Breach December 2020 – Automotive services provider Inchcape Australia appears to have been compromised by the Windows Ransomexx ransomware. Cyber criminals who hit the company leaking some data that they stole, on the dark web.
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New Zealand Ransomware Attack December 2020. NZ financial strategies provider Staircase hit by Windows NetWalker ransomware. The attackers have listed a number of data files on their site on the dark web
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Australian Audit Report November 2020. Major NSW govt agencies still without disaster recovery plans for all systems. Auditor finds at least seven agencies missing plans.
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