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Federal budget 2023: Winners and losers

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... scammers with $58 million in funding for a National Anti-Scam Centre, $17.6 million for the removal of investment scam and phishing websites and $10.9 million for a new Australian SMS Sender ID Registry. First home buyers: While the government did expand ...

Funding boosts ASIC greenwashing remit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... $3.1 billion in 2022 alone. Under a $17.6 million spend over four years, ASIC will gain a tougher remit to take down phishing websites and other websites which promote investment scams. This is part of a pool of $86.5 million package that Chalmers dedicated ...

NGS Super suffers cyber-attack

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... members from 2019/20 accessed. The data breach occurred when a staff member's email account was caught up in a broad phishing attack campaign.

Spirit Super member data exposed after security attack

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... compromised. The data breach occurred on 19 May 2022 when a Spirit Super staff member's email account was caught up in a broad phishing attack campaign. In a statement Spirit Super said that it detected the information security breach and contained the ...

Aussies lose $328m to investment scams

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... $131 million was lost to romance scams and $128 million was the result of business emails or payment redirection scams. Phishing, threats to life, arrest or threat-based scams and identity theft were the main scam categories, often involving the impersonation ...

Venture capital firm in data breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... capital firm that recently won a mandate with the Future Fund is the subject of a cybersecurity breach that involved a phishing scam. Sequoia Capital informed investors last week that sensitive information has been accessed by a third party. The Future ...

Super must prioritise cybersecurity risk: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... 85% said existing frameworks and standards should be aligned and streamlined. The majority (82%) of breaches relate to phishing emails, followed by identity theft (56%), human error or negligence (55%) and malware (46%). Over half (62%) of respondents ...

Crackdown on ERS scams continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... scheme." The spokesperson added that the ATO's systems were never breached and the incidents were related to things like phishing scams. "At no time were ATO's online systems compromised or hacked," the ATO said. "The ATO has a dedicated integrity strategy ...

Cyber criminals jump on ERS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... Simms told the joint committee on COVID-19 criminal activity and law enforcement that over 60% of COVID-19 scams are phishing scams aimed at collecting identity information. "As the economy responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACCC has been active ...

Major super funds caught in fraud scandal

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... not already been contacted." "We will continue to inform and educate our members about identity theft, particularly via phishing, and the best means to mitigate the risk." LUCRF Super executive manager, distribution Chris Deakin told Financial Standard ...
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