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Australia ranks number one in Asia Pacific for most ransomware attacks, and seventh globally according to new research which reveals that 37% of all attacks on Australian organisations targeted the commercial and professional services sector.

GUEST OPINION: Cybercrime flourished in 2021, and there are no signs of a slowdown in 2022. There are several factors behind this high-confidence prediction.

Australia is among the top seven countries where organisations have had their data exploited and leaked, with "double-extortion" and "ransomware-as-a-service" frequently used in 2020.

A cryptocurrency miner known as DiscordiaMiner, which made an appearance last year, appears to have now morphed into a new variant known as Rarog, the network and enterprise security company Palo Alto Networks claims. Rarog runs only on Windows.

Palo Alto’s Unit 42 has identified a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet “Tsunami” dubbed “Amnesia” that targets commercial grade closed circuit TV DVR (digital video recorder) devices made by TVT Digital and branded by over 70 vendors worldwide. About 227,000 devices are affected.