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AustralianSuper says cyberattack losses total $750k

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... police and government authorities. "We can say that cyber criminals undertook a coordinated, well-funded and sophisticated attack, attempting to access the retirement funds of Australians using stolen / approximated email addresses and passwords to log ...

Breaches continue as Cbus confirms 'unusual behaviour'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... "unusually high spike in log-in attempts", impacting around 85 member accounts, which occurred several days after the cyber-attack that impacted other super funds. "At this stage of our inquiries, there is no evidence that any financial losses have occurred ...

Cyberattacks on super funds expose 'critical vulnerability'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... effectively with members. Swift and decisive action, he added, is crucial to maintaining public trust, noting this recent attack wasn't just an attack on individual funds but the whole system. Super Consumers Australia (SCA) also condemned the superannuation ...

Cybercriminals attack major super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
Cybercriminals attempted to breach the systems of several superannuation funds over the weekend, although most attacks were repelled, thousands have been affected. Rest said fewer than 1% of its members have been affected by unauthorised activity on ...

The super fund scouring the dark web to protect members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
A compromised identity could result in financial harm, including the loss of superannuation savings, a particularly prominent risk given the volume of members' personal data available for sale. This super fund is fighting back with a novel approach. ...

Coalition members call for superannuation guarantee reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... Murray Watt labelled the statements by the Coalition members as "astonishing," adding they revealed "how much they want to attack super," and how keen they are to cut wages. "We've seen in the last couple of days, Coalition MPs like Matt Canavan and ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... published Cost of War report estimates the US dropped US$17.9 billion in military aid to Israel since the October 7 Hamas attack and a further US$5 billion to combat Yemen's Houthis commercial attacks on ships in the Red Sea as a mark of solidarity ...

Unprecedented vulnerabilities in financial services: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
... systems and remote work, the volume of data that needs protection is skyrocketing," KPMG said. "As a result, the cyber-attack surface is expanding, creating more alerts and triage events for financial services cyber security leaders to manage. So, how ...

Iress says its GitHub user space was breached

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... has disclosed to shareholders that its private user space with software code repository GitHub was subjected to a cyber-attack over the weekend. On Saturday, GitHub - a third-party platform that manages software code before it goes live on another platform ...

UniSuper outage continues, no cause identified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... "Let me stress that Google Cloud has provided clear assurance that this was not the result of a malicious act or cyber-attack, and UniSuper data has not been exposed to unauthorised parties because of this issue," Chun said. "While a full root cause ...