Cyber attacks stories
Undisclosed attacks outnumbered public cases by nine to one, with healthcare and government still bearing the brunt of the ransomware threat.
New Zealand’s first Balikatan cyber role is giving an Army corporal hands-on experience with US and Philippine forces in a simulated threat hunt.
Cloud teams can now investigate incidents and fix risks inside coding tools, as Sysdig shifts security work from dashboards to AI agents.
Australian businesses and users face rising account-takeover risk as experts say AI-driven attacks and leaked credentials have outpaced passwords.
Weak logins are still putting power grids, hospitals and water systems at risk as experts mark World Password Day with fresh warnings.
Managed service providers could cut alert backlogs as WatchGuard’s new AI agent takes on threat detection and response across client networks.
Many firms still cannot stop intrusions, even as AI is now implicated in most reported breaches and security budgets keep rising.
Rising attack speeds are forcing stretched IT teams to act faster, as Tanium says its new system can turn one operator into many.
AI has made stolen credentials and careless copy-paste habits a bigger risk than password strength, with scams and breaches accelerating.
Australian firms face growing cyber gaps as insurers and clients demand evidence of controls beyond the Essential Eight, amid new AI threats.
Arctic Wolf expands its Agentic SOC as AI speeds attacks and shadow AI risks, with President, Technology and Services Dan Schiappa backing human oversight.
Many firms are missing exposed systems and credentials, leaving attackers an easier route in as breaches hit 43% of UK businesses last year.
More than six million Britons may be exposing accounts to hackers by using one password across email, banking, shopping and social media.
Sleep loss and costly cover gaps are leaving most UK small firms exposed, as 77% say they do not understand cyber insurance.
Survey data showing 35% of small firms hit by cyberattacks has prompted a free Optus scheme to help businesses prepare and respond.
Yet only 15 per cent have deployed OT-specific visibility tools, even as cyber incidents have already disrupted critical systems for most respondents.
Banks and fintechs are being pushed to sharpen cyber defences as AI threats and operational knock-on effects test the UK payments system.
Security teams are being forced into faster triage as AI shortens the gap between flaw disclosure and attack to hours.
A lack of visibility is leaving many European organisations unable to tell whether AI-powered attacks have already breached their systems.
Most Australian firms expect AI agents to outrun security controls within a year, as only 22 per cent say they can fully see them.
