11 Dec 2025

Tech: Qantas breach, CoPhish Microsoft exploit, and more

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 11 December 2025
A photo taken on August 20, 2023 shows the wing-tip of a Qantas Airbus A330 descending to land at Sydney´s Kingsford Smith Airport. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

A photo taken on August 20, 2023 shows the wing-tip of a Qantas Airbus A330 descending to land at Sydney´s Kingsford Smith Airport. Photo: WILLIAM WEST/AFP

Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso looks at the incident that compromised Qantas customer data - including names, emails and frequent flyer details.

He explains what a "CoPhish" attack is, and how it's being used to exploit new Microsoft cloud services.

And Australia's annual cyber threat report has been released - more than 42,000 phone calls were made to the country's cyber security hotline. What were the main incidents being reported?

Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso is Chief Information Security officer at COGENT. He worked at GCHQ in the UK and is a former Intelligence Officer in New Zealand.

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