Espionage has become one of the most significant national security threats to Australia, impacting government, businesses and the university sector. The highly secretive nature of espionage makes it extremely difficult to measure. This study estimates, for the first time, the actual and prevented costs of espionage.

The live streaming of child sexual abuse (CSA) is a technologically and financially enabled crime type which has proliferated in recent years. This study uses a machine learning approach to produce a proof-of-concept model for identifying financial indicators associated with CSA live streaming. It reveals an important opportunity to use financial transactions to detect and...

Take up of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by businesses, governments and malicious actors will enhance existing cyberthreats. This fact sheet provides definitions for common AI terms in cybersecurity and a brief typology of cyberthreats that will arise from AI.

This report provides insight into scams targeting Australians in 2024 and highlights the impact of combined efforts by government, law enforcement, community sector and industry to combat scams. Scam reports and reported losses to scams have decreased from 2023.

This report examines the vulnerability of emerging economies across the Indo-Pacific and Latin America in the face of economic cyber espionage and the degree to which major emerging economies in these regions are prepared to respond. Countries in the study have been assessed and given a risk label indicating their vulnerability.