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Digital camouflage, financial trails and the evidence cybercrime leaves behind
Australian agencies explain crypters, fraud trails, online evidence preservation and critical Citrix flaws in the week to 8 September 2026.
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Inside the Evidence Trail of Cyber Enabled Crime in Australia
Recent Australian police cases show how identity data, false documents, platform records and digital forensics connect serious online crime to evidence that can be tested.
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Business Email Compromise: What the Digital Evidence in a BEC Scam Can Actually Prove
What email, audit, document and device records can actually prove in an Australian Business Email Compromise scam, and how a BEC investigation identifies which side of the compromise the liability sits on.
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Two High alerts from ASD in six days, and both are management platforms
ASD's ACSC published High alerts on 19 and 24 August 2026 about active exploitation in Australia of N-able N-central and TeamCity On-Premises. What each alert says and what it asks organisations to do.
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What the Privacy Act actually requires about automated decisions from 10 December 2026
From 10 December 2026 APP 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 require an APP entity's privacy policy to describe the automated decisions it makes. What that does and does not require, in the OAIC's own words.
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NSW South Coast man before court charged over mobile phishing scam
Media Release NSW South Coast man in court charged over mobile phishing scam Editor’s note: Vision and images from the arrest and seized items available via Hightail.
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Alleged ‘Hafnium’ hacker-for-hire extradited to the United States
Alleged ‘Hafnium’ hacker-for-hire extradited to the United States A Chinese national has appeared before the United States District Court in Houston after being extradited from Italy over the weekend. Thirty-four-year-old Xu Zewei is accused of directing a sophisticated computer intrusion campaign that compromised more than twelve thousand seven hundred North American organisations, including academic institutions…
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US reportedly charges Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland
US reportedly charges Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland A nineteen-year-old dual United States and Estonian citizen has been arrested in Finland following a request from American law enforcement authorities. The arrest represents a significant development in the ongoing international effort to disrupt the Scattered Spider hacking collective, a group that has been linked to…
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Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet ‘fast16’ Malware Targeting Engineering Software
Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet ‘fast16’ Malware Targeting Engineering Software Cybersecurity researchers at SentinelOne have discovered a previously undocumented malware framework called fast16 that dates back to 2005. The Lua-based implant was designed to sabotage high-precision engineering and simulation software by introducing systematic errors into mathematical calculations. The malware was uncovered after SentinelOne identified an artifact named…
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CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline
CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added four actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The flaws impact SimpleHelp remote support software, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server digital signage platform, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers. Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies…