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1 May 2016 at 22:21, Darren PauliWAHckon 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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