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Raft of Australian companies compromised in hosting service hack

The Black Basta ransomware gang has posted details of a hack affecting nearly a dozen Australian organisations.

A ransomware gang has posted dozens of Australian passports and driver’s licenses to the dark web after apparently compromising a cloud-based hosting service.

The Black Basta gang has not disclosed who the hosting service is, however, referring to the victim only as “hvd.host”.

What the gang has shared, however, is a list of mostly Australian businesses whose data the gang is threatening to publish if a ransom isn’t paid by March 9. Thirteen companies are listed by the gang.

Black Basta listed the companies by their websites as…

Hundreds of people have shared Facebook posts falsely claiming to show two Australian Navy ships ramming “a boat loaded with illegal immigrants that did not respond to requests to stop”. 

The posts, which have also been shared on X (formerly known as Twitter), add: “The illegal immigrants were all returned, the crew members arrested and the boat scrapped.”

They also say “that’s the way you do it!”—implying that similar tactics should be used in the UK.

But this picture doesn’t show ships from the Australian Navy or a boat carrying migrants. As we have written before, when the same false claim went viral in 2020, the picture was taken in 2012 and actually shows a flare-up in tensions between China and Japan over a small group of islands in the East…

An Australian vegan has had enough of their neighbor’s meat-cooking ways, penning a scathing letter to the house next door after the smell of a backyard BBQ apparently made the vegan feel sick.

“Enough is enough,” read a letter from the vegan, who identified herself as Sarah, to her BBQ-hosting neighbor, which was shared with the Facebook page “Hey Perth.”

The letter came after Sarah’s neighbor, identified as Kylie, hosted a backyard BBQ gathering with friends to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. The smell of meat apparently infuriated Sarah, who had previously written a letter to Kylie asking her to close her kitchen window while cooking meat for dinner.

AUSTRALIAN VEGAN TAKES NEIGHBORS TO COURT BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T LIKE THE SMELL OF FISH BEING BARBECUED

An Australian vegan has had enough of their neighbor’s meat cooking ways, penning a scathing letter to the house next door after the smell of a backyard BBQ apparently made the vegan feel sick.

“Enough is enough,” read a letter from the vegan, who identified herself as Sarah, to her BBQ-hosting neighbor in the letter, which was shared with the Facebook page “Hey Perth.”

The letter came after Sarah’s neighbor, identified as Kylie, hosted a backyard BBQ gathering with friends to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. The smell of meat apparently infuriated Sarah, who had previously written a letter to Kylie asking her to close her kitchen window while cooking meat for dinner.

AUSTRALIAN VEGAN TAKES NEIGHBORS TO COURT BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T LIKE THE SMELL OF FISH BEING BARBECUED

Burgers…