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GUEST OPINION: Despite high levels of awareness and significant investments in security measures, ransomware remains one of the biggest security challenges faced by organisations around the globe.

Three clients of IT services firm Core Desktop appear to be the latest Australian victims of the the Alphv ransomware group.

The golden age of Windows ransomware appears to be here, judging by the statistics provided by content delivery network Akamai in its latest State of the Internet report that spans the period from October 2021 to the end of May 2023.

New York-based firm Estee Lauder Companies has suffered a network breach of some of its systems, a statement from the company says.

The newly appointed Australian national cyber security co-ordinator says the Department of Home Affairs and legal firm HWL Ebsworth are working to address the impacts of the ransomware attack on the company.

A ransomware gang which attacked the well-known social news aggregation site Reddit has expanded its demands, asking the company to reverse announced hikes in the prices for using its API.

It is more than somewhat ironical that HWL Ebsworth, the Australian law firm that is reeling after a ransomware attack that led to massive data theft, has a slogan on its website saying, "We're not your typical law firm".

An Australian law firm's bid to try and use a court injunction to prevent publication of material stolen during a ransomware raid is unlikely to have any effect on the attackers behind the intrusion, a security professional says.

Australian financial services firm FIIG Securities has confirmed that an unauthorised third party has acted illegally to gain access to its IT systems.

The parent company of a private defence contractor in India has been compromised by the Windows Alphv ransomware (aka BlackCat), with the group releasing a number of documents on the dark web and claiming to have stolen 2TB of data.