February 2026
Key cyber trends straight from the desk of Cyber Intelligence
- Extortion actors continue to target AUNZ organisations – over the past two months, Cyber Intelligence observed several breaches of Australian and New Zealand organisations, with 10 Australian victims claimed on extortion group CL0p’s dedicated leak site (DLS).
- So what? CL0p continues to periodically list new victims on its DLS, demonstrating the potential for extortion campaigns to stretch on for many months.
- Ransomware developers increasingly target hypervisors – In 2025, CyberCX responded to a significantly higher proportion of ransomware incidents that targeted hypervisor infrastructure – software that enables the creation and management of virtual machines (VMs).
- So what? Organisations should take care to segregate virtualisation infrastructure for different security zones, implement tiered access, and harden authentication mechanisms.
- State actors are integrating cyber and kinetic effects for security outcomes, including a Russian intelligence-linked actor who launched a destructive attack on Poland’s electricity grid in the dead of winter, aiming to trigger mass blackouts.
- So what? These potentially destructive attacks demonstrate possible use cases for pre-positioning in critical OT infrastructure.
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