The strategy includes financial investments to support small and medium businesses, strengthen critical infrastructure, and enhance cyber capabilities, but critics argue that the allocated funds are insufficient.

In a press conference on June 8, ACT government chief digital officer Bettina Konti said there is a likelihood that some personal information is involved but the harms assessment needs to be completed for that to be clear.

“Between November 2022-April 2023, we noticed a 910% increase in monthly registrations for domains, both benign and malicious, related to ChatGPT,” according to the latest Network Threat Trends Research Report from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.

Improperly deactivated and unmaintained Salesforce sites are vulnerable to threat actors who can gain access to sensitive business data and personally identifiable information (PII) by simply changing the host header.

Economic pressures and remote working could be increasing critical national infrastructure insider threats while nation-state actors and ransomware attacks continue to pose significant risks.

Although threat actors may not be directly correlating the insurance factor to find targets, a reason for this may be that as insurers require more from companies those able to pay for insurance are also likely to be able to afford bigger ransoms.

A group of cybercriminals based in Israel has launched more than 350 business email compromise (BEC) campaigns over the past two years, targeting large multinational companies from around the world.

Ransomware remains one of the biggest cyber threats for private organizations and governments. However, hackers are engineering new ways to extract ransom from their victims as organizations take a conscious call to decline ransom payment demands.

Attacks through Active Directory Certificate Services are fairly easy for bad actors to perform but basic vigilance and built-in Windows protections can help mitigate the risk of a breach.

Researchers warn that attackers are relying more on malicious HTML files in their attacks, with malicious files now accounting for half of all HTML attachments sent via email.