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Cyberattacks on super funds expose 'critical vulnerability'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... Financial Standard how it is actively monitoring the dark web for potential exposures involving its members - including cyber breaches from their own systems - warning that the volume of financial data held by the industry makes it an attractive target ...

Cybercriminals attack major super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... the fund responded immediately by shutting down the member access portal, undertaking investigations, and launching its cyber security incident response protocol. Nevertheless, she said this will be "very concerning" for impacted members, adding the ...

Pendal's Blayney lands at HESTA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... 20 years working in financial services, Catherall brings extensive expertise in security strategy, risk management, and cyber resilience. He previously served as regional chief information security officer at AVIVA and head of information security management ...

The super fund scouring the dark web to protect members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... to the proactive outreach, appreciating the effort to inform them. "While the superannuation sector has seen increasing cyber activity, threat intelligence experts caution that the industry's profile could rapidly rise among cybercriminals. The sheer ...

Government plans to develop 'fit for purpose' digital asset regime

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and special envoy for cyber security and digital resilience Andrew Charlton have announced plans to develop a digital asset regime, aimed at providing clarity and certainty to the sector. They said this initiative would help to ...

Mercer adds to wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... private data of more than 18,000 clients stolen and released on the dark web. According to ASIC, FIIG failed to have adequate cyber risk management systems in place for a period of four years - from March 2019 to June 2023.

ASIC slaps FIIG Securities with lawsuit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... private data of more than 18,000 clients stolen and released on the dark web. According to ASIC, FIIG failed to have adequate cyber risk management systems in place for a period of four years - from March 2019 to June 2023. Due to this failure, ASIC ...

Super doesn't have to be 'boring', but innovation is key

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
Leaders at Aware Super, NGS Super, Rest and AMP have all pointed to slow moving systems as standing in the way of innovation while speaking at the AM Tech Day conference in Sydney. AMP group executive, platforms Edwina Maloney said traditional thinking ...

SEC drops civil enforcement case against Coinbase

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
... the action. The agency also clarified that the dismissal doesn't signal a shift in its stance on other ongoing cases. "The Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit will root out those seeking to misuse innovation to harm investors, including fraud involving ...

Super failures, greenwashing: ASIC's key issues in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... and real inequality of wealth, shifts in the way capital is invested, and advances in artificial intelligence, data and cyber risk, are all key factors influencing the way ASIC views the issues facing Australia's financial system," it said. ASIC said ...