Scammers Are Exploiting Global IT Outage, Government Warns

Australians are advised to be very cautious in sharing information online following a recent IT outage as scammers are using the incident to run phishing scams. A global IT outage on July 19 hit an estimated 8.5 million devices and impacting many companies and services, including banks, airports, supermarkets, and hospitals. A reboot to fix the interruption was issued by the cyber security firm CrowdStrike whose software update caused the issue but the incident has given rise to other problems. “Scammers are trying to exploit the outages caused by the CrowdStrike technical incident,” Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil wrote in an X post....