This study uses data from online Australians in moderated interviews with 33 ransomware victims to examine victim decision making during a ransomware attack. It finds that support and resources – to help victims assess the risks associated with a ransomware attack and to restore their data and devices – must be readily accessible when ransomware...

The Cybercrime in Australia series aims to provide high-quality and robust evidence on self‑reported cybercrime victimisation, financial losses and other harms, help-seeking behaviour and, importantly, changes over time. This report offers insights into the experience of cybercrime among Australian individuals and small to medium businesses. One in five respondents experienced multiple types of cybercrime.

Addressing the risks of fraud and corruption against the Commonwealth is crucial to the Australian Government. This report presents the results from the 2024–25 census on fraud against the Commonwealth, which collected responses from 162 Australian Government entities. Most external frauds where the allegation was substantiated targeted program payments.

Over the past decade, cyber-scam centres dedicated to running online scams at a massive scale have proliferated across areas of South-East Asia. These centres themselves have become sites of significant exploitation. This research sought to understand women and girls’ experiences of trafficking into cyber-scam centres for forced criminality in the South East Asian region.

This report presents the results from the 2023–24 Fraud against the Commonwealth census and the measures taken to prevent, detect or respond to fraud. Australian Government entities detected or received 288,808 allegations of fraud in 2023–24. Program information and program payments were the principal targets of substantiated internal and external fraud allegations respectively.