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Premier Chris Minns said 250 officers will train for fast deployment at events and landmarks, with the first 60 on patrol from November 1 after December’s Bondi Beach attack killed 15 people.
ASIC’s civil case against Fortnum Private Wealth over cyber controls at its authorised-representative network reached a Supreme Court hearing in Sydney, testing how far licensees must supervise third-party advisers on security training and risk systems.
Northern Beaches officers evacuated Dee Why station Thursday evening after a resident handed in a live military-grade grenade found while clearing a deceased estate.
ANZ warned businesses to verify payment instructions as October’s Cyber Security Action Month coincides with AI-assisted invoice fraud and a national cybercrime report count above 84,000.
Reece Fakhr, 18, was stopped boarding a flight to Southeast Asia after his phone was allegedly recovered at the Norwest apartment where a 12-year-old boy was fatally shot.
Defence firms and officials meet in Perth as Canberra and New Delhi turn July’s joint declaration into industry roadmaps beside the Land Forces expo.
Defence confirmed one soldier died and five were injured when a high-mobility vehicle overturned during training southeast of Darwin, reviving scrutiny of safety at the live-fire range.
Defence confirmed one soldier died and five were hurt during training at the Northern Territory’s Mount Bundey range, with injured personnel airlifted to Royal Darwin Hospital and police assisting the inquiry.
The privacy regulator opened a formal investigation into whether Optus met notification deadlines after a March credential breach affecting prepaid accounts.
Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has opened a commissioner-initiated investigation into whether Optus waited too long to notify customers and regulators about a March credential-stuffing incident.
Police say a man who crashed a Chrysler wagon into a tree near Rugby aimed a loaded firearm at responding officers before he was shot and died at the scene.
Amman detained a man Reuters links to the ShinyHunters extortion ring as Australian regulators count 5.7 million exposed Qantas accounts and the FBI warns additional arrests are coming.
ASIC chair Sarah Court said pump-and-dump promoters increasingly open WhatsApp groups using deepfake videos of economists and commentators, extending a pattern the regulator tied to record scam takedowns in FY26.
AFP confirms the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team is reviewing whether the accused flydubai attacker was radicalised while on a student visa between 2015 and 2017, after the UAE described the mid-air assault as terrorism.
ASIC named six websites cloning tier-one bank research branding to sell bogus government and corporate bonds to retirees searching for yield.
ASIC says fraudsters are cloning Moneysmart.gov.au pages to collect emails and pitch fake government-backed investments, urging consumers to verify the .gov.au domain.
The AFP charged three people over SIM-swap thefts that drained self-managed super fund trustee portals in Queensland, alleging they bypassed SMS two-factor codes to redirect six-figure rollovers.
Western Australia police say Tactical Response Group officers took five people into custody at a Geraldton property after a man was shot in the leg on a rural road before dawn.
ASIC warned financial advisers that attackers are replying inside genuine email threads with fake breach notices, trying to steal myGov and portal credentials.
The AFP traced a premium-SMS billing scam through compromised telco aggregator APIs, freezing merchant accounts that siphoned small recurring charges from thousands of mobiles.
ASIC told a Federal Court directions hearing that Clark Family Pty Ltd’s loan-comparison websites may have misled borrowers while reselling personal data to a small set of lenders.
The National Anti-Scam Centre says criminals are impersonating church leaders to push treasurers into buying prepaid cards in bulk, then disappearing once the codes are shared.
ASIC's 26-195MR says generative AI is now woven through fake licence pitches and celebrity deepfakes, with FY26 takedowns up 182 per cent to 19,400. The register check is still the cheapest defence.
ASIC’s May 2026 open letter tells AFS licensees to rehearse incident playbooks as frontier AI accelerates attacks, citing the Federal Court’s FIIG Securities cyber penalty as the proportionality benchmark.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission used new anti-scam industry codes to block the first spoofed alphanumeric SMS sender ID linked to fraudulent banking lures, following a phishing surge that piggybacked on National Australia Bank Ltd.’s Sept 23 digital outage.
Counter-terrorism police charged a 65-year-old Carlton man Wednesday with ISIS membership and distributing about 10,000 violent extremist files after Australian Border Force flagged his devices on departure from Melbourne.
The Australian Federal Police charged four people with running a SIM-swap ring that drained self-custody cryptocurrency wallets after bribing retail store staff and exploiting carrier porting gaps, seizing hardware wallets and cash in Sydney and Melbourne raids.
The Australian Signals Directorate warned Group of Eight research offices that counterfeit grant portals are intercepting multi-factor authentication prompts from academics chasing Australian Research Council and NHMRC deadlines, after three universities reported credential thefts tied to look-alike submission sites.
An 11-year-old boy remains in critical condition after being shot in the face at a Norwest home on Monday evening, as New South Wales police investigate possible organised-crime links among adults present and search parks for a discarded firearm.
Customer Owned Banking says Australians have lost more than $13.8 million to buying-and-selling scams this year, with fake AFL finals tickets among the lures as clubs prepare preliminary finals crowds.
ASIC says generative AI now seeds fake news pages, reviews and celebrity endorsements into ordinary search results, and warns that checking an AFS licence number alone will not expose cloned investment sites.
Canberra said Monday it maintains robust export controls after Politico reported that F-35 components including a radar-absorbing canopy left Australia and were diverted to Hong Kong, raising U.S. fears about classified technology exposure.
Bendigo Bank is rolling a voiceprint fallback for Bendigo Business Online payroll approvals when hardware security keys fail, after payroll fraud teams recorded synthetic-voice calls tricking approvers who were already logged into approval screens.
The OAIC directed Australian Digital Health Agency contractors to rerun privacy impact assessments and independent API penetration tests after a red-team exercise exposed inconsistent consent logging on My Health Record FHIR gateways used by clinical software vendors.
EnergyAustralia rehearsed control-room voice callbacks after Scamwatch flagged a wave of fake bill-pay SMS lures targeting Melbourne and Sydney accounts, requiring supervisors to confirm high-risk payment plan changes by phone before agents release account notes.
Commonwealth Bank is piloting a controlled hardware-token bypass for a western New South Wales grain co-operative after harvest payroll runs stalled when token batteries failed mid-transfer, tightening audit trails before the Australian Financial Complaints Authority reviews rural business-banking scams.
Macquarie Bank is piloting richer step-up prompts in its Authenticator app after clients approved transfers during phone calls that used synthetic voices mimicking relationship managers, shifting liability questions toward in-app detail review.
Westpac froze outbound payroll batches for three Melbourne hospitality groups after business-email scammers swapped supplier and wage-account details, pushing payroll teams to adopt Confirmation of Payee checks before the spring trading rush.