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Major Optus cyber-attack drives Australia to begin privacy overhaul

After a significant cyber-attack targeting telecoms firm Optus, Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese announced that he plans to strengthen privacy rules to ensure that banks are notified quickly after a company faces an attack.


Uber believes Lapsus$-affiliated hacker caused breach

Ridesharing firm Uber has accused the hacking group Lapsus$ of being responsible for a breach that impacted a number of internal systems.


Cloud platform Twilio target of successful social engineering hack

Employees at the cloud communications platform, Twilio recently fell victim to a sophisticated social engineering attack that made some customer data available to hackers.


Australian police arrest young hacker behind Imminent Monitor RAT

A 24-year-old Australian hacker is facing a 20-year prison sentence after an Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigation connected him to the highly damaging Imminent Monitor remote access trojan (RAT).


Defence contractor L3Harris end talks to buy spyware firm NSO Group

After a backlash by the White House and activists, US defence contractor L3Harris has reportedly abandoned talks to buy controversial surveillance technology from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group.