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Policy & Regulation

Australians Are Safer Online Than Last Year — Unless They Run a Small Business

A new government survey found cybercrime fell across Australia in 2025, but small business owners are facing more legal and staffing fallout than ever before.

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Ransomware

Ransomware Surge Led by Lockbit and Conti Offshoots

NCC Group counts 198 successful ransomware campaigns in July 2023, up 47 percent from June, with Lockbit and two Conti-born groups driving most of the damage.

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Breaches

Twenty Years of Getting It Wrong: The Breaches and Blunders That Defined Modern Cybersecurity

From MGM's identity disaster to MOVEit's patch pile-up, the same failure modes keep appearing in postmortems. That's the problem.

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Threat Intelligence

Small Gaps, Big Consequences: The Week's Breaches Ran on Trust, Not Zero-Days

Browsers, bots, AI sandboxes and email flows all failed the same way: quietly, and inside the rules.

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Ransomware

FortiBleed Credential Haul Now Feeding INC and Lynx Ransomware Crews

A single operator was spotted running negotiation panels for both gangs, turning stolen FortiGate logins into ransomware payloads.

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Ransomware

Sysdig Flags 'JADEPUFFER' as First End-to-End AI-Run Ransomware Attack

Researchers say a large language model handled intrusion, lateral movement and destruction of a production database without a human at the keyboard.

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AI Security

DeepSeek-Generated PoC Ransomware Runs Entirely in the Browser via Chromium File System Access API

Researchers documented what they describe as the first frontier-model-produced malware artifact that fuses LLM ideation with a legitimate Chromium capability to encrypt user files without dropping a single native binary.

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AI Security

DeepSeek Spits Out Working Browser-Native Ransomware for Windows and Android

Researchers say a frontier model stitched together a real Chromium capability with discarded malware concepts and produced something that actually encrypts files from inside a tab.

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Threat Intelligence

The Week in Cheap Crime: Stale Creds, Trusted Apps, and Phishing Through the Front Door

Not elite. Not cinematic. Just effective, and that's the problem.

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Identity & Access

Account Takeovers Still Outrunning Detection, Vendors Push Behavioral AI as Answer

Compromised credentials remain the cheapest entry point on criminal marketplaces. A new webinar argues behavioral models, not static rules, are the only way to close the gap.

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Threat Intelligence

Mistic Backdoor Ties to IAB Selling Enterprise Footholds to Ransomware Gangs

A new in-memory backdoor named Mistic has been active since April, and the threat actor behind it has reportedly funneled access to Qilin, Akira, Black Basta, and others.

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Ransomware

Double Trouble: Two Unrelated Attacks Thrive on Unpatched SharePoint

Microsoft DART untangles dual intrusions on the same server, each attacker accidentally covering the other's tracks.

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Threat Intelligence

Weekly Threat Roundup: EDR Killers, Browser Bugs, and an Android Trojan With Too Many Hands

Abused integrations, poisoned WordPress, and ransomware crews still gunning for endpoint sensors, familiar tradecraft, better packaged.

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Ransomware

War Room Debrief: How a Fictional Grocery Chain Got Crushed by APT 64

A tabletop exercise at Infosecurity Europe put ransomware, AI poisoning, and deepfake CEO videos inside a simulated supermarket attack. The blue team held the line. The red team shorted the stock anyway.

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Threat Intelligence

INTERPOL Flags Sharp Rise in Phishing, Ransomware and AI Scams Across Asia-Pacific

A new INTERPOL assessment maps a region where cybercrime is outpacing defensive capacity, with phishing leading the volume charts and ransomware crews exploiting the gap.

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