Australia and US impose sanctions on North Korean cyber ops

Australia has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four entities and one individual linked to North Korea’s cryptocurrency theft operations, foreign minister Penny Wong announced today. The entities include the notorious Lazarus Group hackers, which have been active for around a decade-and-a-half, said to be responsible for the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures, and […]

The BoM has finally tamed SSL

It was a punchline, a source of memes and, occasionally, even an ensign for those pathologically opposed to big government tech-spends. For nearly 30 years, Australia’s national, online weather website has seen the sunburnt country through thousands of droughts and flooding rains. But there was a particularly persistent dark cloud over the portal that the […]

State-sponsored threat actors abuse Gemini AI, Google says

State-sponsored threat actors from China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea have all managed to misuse Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence throughout 2025 to hone their malicious cyber activities, despite the company’s efforts to detect and prevent malicious usage. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) documented the activity in a report named AI Threat Tracker: Advances in Threat […]