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Cyber Attacks Are Rising: Expert Advice for Your Safety #shorts
Jul 29, 2025
Cyber attacks are surging—a report every 6 minutes in Australia! An ex-FBI agent reveals why hackers target firms like Qantas and how exposed data leads to fraud and identity theft. Is your info at risk? "It really is on you" to protect yourself! #cybersecurity #databreach #cyberattack #privacy #identitytheft
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Latest research shows a cyber crime
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report is made every six minutes in
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Australia. In the latest few months, a
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number of major companies in Australia
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have been the victim of cyber attacks,
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including Janaa IVF, Quantis, Louis
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Vuitton, and the United Australia Party.
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And in April last year, nearly 13
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million Australians had their personal
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and private health information stolen in
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the Medi Seccure data breach. Well, Adam
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Mare is a former FBI special agent
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turned chief information security
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officer with Arctic Wolf and he joins us
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this afternoon. Adam, thanks so much for
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your time. It seems there is a major
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cyber attack every week at the moment.
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Why are they increasing?
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Well, thank you for having me on. It's
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my pleasure to be here. Uh the short
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answer is profit. There's so much money
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to be made in cyber crime and so these
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criminals are targeting organizations
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across all sectors including healthcare,
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fashion, airlines and more as you
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mentioned and they use uh various
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tactics like ransomware and other things
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to steal information and make profit off
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it. So that's why they're doing it.
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So we hand over our private information
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as we know very confidential health
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information to these companies. What
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duty of care or legal requirements do
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they have to keep that data safe?
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So around the world uh different
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governments have different rules for
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them to protect this information. We
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certainly have those here in Australia
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as well. So they do have a duty of care
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and which is why I think we're seeing
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more reports of these because part of
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that duty of care is if they get
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breached they have to report it and
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that's another reason why it seems like
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these are on the rise. Gone are the days
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where they can hide breaches. They now
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need to report those to make sure that
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everyone knows and they can take
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measures themselves to try to protect
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themselves when their data has been
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exposed. So, in regards to having our
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data exposed, Adam, how can the hackers
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use this? Is it just because they can
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sell that information online? Are we
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likely to then have our private
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information or bank accounts hacked?
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What's the basis behind them stealing
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our data?
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Yeah, you nailed it on both of those
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things. So, they can use it for identity
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theft. They can use it for financial
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fraud. Uh they can invade your privacy.
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uh if it's login credentials, so
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username and password, they will try
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that against every single account that's
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out there because if you reuse the
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password, they'll try to find an account
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that used that password and get on
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there. So when your information has been
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exposed, it really is on you to
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understand what information was exposed
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and if there are things like usernames
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and passwords to make sure that you look
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at those accounts and go change your
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passwords. Turn on multifactor
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authentication and do other basic cyber
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hygiene to protect yourself. You may
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also want to put monitoring on your
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accounts to make sure that if someone
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tries to, you know, take out a loan or
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something in your name, you get alerted
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to that so people can't do those kinds
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of things with the information that they
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have on you. really important advice and
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we appreciate you joining us today.
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Adam, thanks so much.
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Thank you very much.
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