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Ninety-one percent (91%) of Australian organisations find the execution of some essential security operation tasks, such as threat hunting, challenging, with 71% struggling with identifying the root causes behind an incident, leaving them vulnerable to further malicious activity, according to a new survey.

Premier aircraft leasing asset manager SKY Leasing has been hit by a gang of cyber criminals using the Windows Avaddon ransomware and the attackers have leaked 20 files of the company's data on the dark web.

The actors behind the various Windows ransomware packages changed their tactics to prise money out of their victims' hands in October last year, but it remains to be seen whether their use of social pressure will be more profitable than methods used earlier, a researcher from global security firm Sophos has observed.