Have a Cptn Cook: VXers learn 'Strayan to plunder Down Under


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This one sums up what I have noticed over the last few months, there does seem to be more interest being shown in Australia and they are using several methods so users to be more aware of problems starting.
 

Net ratbags probing how much a koala can bear with dinky-di scams

1 May 2016 at 22:21, Darren Pauli
 
WAHckon Strewth! Australian organisations are gunna be shirt-fronted by malware that includes colourful local language*.
 
Security researcher Raymond Schippers says VXers are writing attacks that reference Australian issues such as taxation and local news, use Australian slang and employ IP geolocation to avoid targeting users beyond the Wide Brown Land.
 
One example is a recent attack campaign targeting Quickbooks, a popular business accountancy application in Australia.
 
“Criminals are specifically targeting Australia and we’d expect that activity to increase,” Schippers (@rayschippers) The Register at the WAHckon security confab in Perth Saturday.
 
“We had seen some activity targeting Australia before but not near this scale”.
 
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I think that you are quite correct, Jasper...but that begs the question as to WHY the Land of OZ is being targeted?
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"Down Under" as they go by is Virgin territory to be exploited by the bay guys.

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