Monday, June 23, 2025

How Hackers Are Turning Tech Support Into a Threat

 47 signs from the anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protests Reuters 


Former NSW MP Daryl Maguire found guilty of misleading corruption inquiry 

Ex-partner of former premier Gladys Berejiklian misled Icac probe over $48m property development, magistrate finds



An Aston Martin, fine art and a yacht: Police probe millions spent protecting detention company luxury

The explosive testimony and corruption allegations emerged as part of a three-year federal police operation codenamed Integra, which is seeking to charge Australian firm Canstruct with serious fraud offences.
Canstruct, which has previously been linked to a series of donations to the Coalition, was paid $1.82 billion to run Australia’s asylum seeker processing regime on Nauru for five years up to late 2022, making at least $450 million in profits.


Who are the companies hoarding bitcoin?

Corporate treasuries now hold more than 3% of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, a stash worth $87bn

Hackers in recent months have disrupted retail sales in the U.K. and U.S. and stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from crypto holders by targeting the outsourced call centers that many American corporations use to save costs.

The hacks are often meticulously researched and use a variety of techniques, but they have one thing in common: low-level workers who staff call centers and have access to the kind of sensitive information that criminals need to commit crimes.



Attacks on call centers lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto thefts and disrupt retail sales