Scams cost Australians more than $100M a year
Australians have so far lost $118.5 million to scams as at October 2019, which is already $10 million more than what it cost in 2018 ($107 million).
Australians have so far lost $118.5 million to scams as at October 2019, which is already $10 million more than what it cost in 2018 ($107 million).
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has warned people and businesses to remain vigilant of the Emotet malware as it continues to respond to the "widespread malware campaign".
Australia is "too remote" to host Kaspersky Lab's planned Asia Pacific transparency centre, the company's vice president of public affairs has revealed.
Kaspersky Lab’s dealings with ASUS after revealing the Taiwanese computer brand’s live software update tool was being used to install a malicious backdoor on its customer’s computers were marred by a language barrier, the timing of Lunar New Year and wrangling over a non-disclosure agreement, it has been revealed.
Australia remains a prime target for cyberattacks ranking first across Asia-Pacific and in the global top ten for the most business threat detections per country last year, according to research.
Thousands of websites, including ones run by U.S. and UK government agencies, were infected for several hours on Sunday with code that causes web browsers to secretly mine digital currencies, technology news site The Register reported.
Google has removed around 60 gaming apps from the Google Play Store after security organisation Check Point discovered they contained malicious code.
Australia suffered 19 million web application attacks in the third quarter of 2017.
Criminals with no coding know-how can create Android ransomware from their mobiles, thanks to the rise of freely available and easy-to-use Trojan Development Kits (TDKs).
Australia's corporate regulator has warned registry customers about a wave of scam emails sent today pretending to be from ASIC.
A fresh wave of malicious, EnergyAustralia-branded emails has hit inboxes around the country.
Malware-loaded emails purporting to be from ASIC are doing the rounds again, with two huge loads dropping over the past two days.
ANZ bank customers' inboxes are being hit by a fake email loaded with malware seeking to steal recipients' data.
EnergyAustralia becomes second Australian energy provider to be impersonated by cyber criminals in malware campaign this year.
An analysis of hundreds of Android virtual private network (VPN) apps has found that 18 per cent do not encrypt users' traffic and 38 per cent inject malware.