Australia & New Zealand Cyber Update #21
5 August to 21 August 2024
Status: Alert not Alarmed
Hacktivist Activity - 2 New Zealand
14 August - New Zealand
Gold Rabbit defaced a New Zealand company - JDcapital.
11 August - New Zealand
Cyber Army Russia Reborn targeted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, based on the viral video of the New Zealand high-jumper aborting their jump.
Ransomware - Victims. 4 Australian and 3 New Zealand
17 August - Australia
Ransomhub posted Regent Caravans to their leak site.
17 August - New Zealand
Ransomhub posted AllanMcNeill Chartered Accountants to their leak site.
11 August - New Zealand
Ransomhub posted Allium Interiors to their leak site.
9 August - Australia
Ransomhub posted Pierre Diamonds to their leak site.
7 August - Australia
Ransomhub posted Kempe Engineering to their leak site.
7 August - Australia
Ransomhub posted Hudson Civil PTY LTD to their leak site.
6 August - New Zealand
Meow Leaks posted Banx Systems to their leak site.
Underground posts/mentions of Note
19 August - Australia
An Initial access broker is offering access to an Australian real estate company for sale.
19 August - Australia
An Initial access broker is offering access to an Australian real estate company - unclear if this is the same as the above post.
16 August - Australia
Threat actor is selling a claimed 6.5 million WhatsApp users mobile numbers for Australia. Unclear if WhatsApp has that amount of penetration in Australia - but the numbers and usernames look legitimate.
15 August - Australia
A threat actor claimed to leak a database from Zenith Trends, an Australian corporate clothes branding company.
14 August - Australia
Threat actor is selling 438,000 Australian citizens data, unclear where the data is from but the sample looks legitimate.
8 August - Australia
The gate post has possibly suffered a data breach, the sample data looks legitimate, but unclear if it is actually from the claimed organization.
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