Monthly Archives: August 2016

Education, your most powerful defence

Anatomy of a social attack You may have seen the article recently where a Brisbane council was defrauded of significant amounts of money by scammers. While investigations are ongoing, this appears to be primarily a social engineering attack similar to several that we have provided advice on in South Australia over the last few months. […]

Cryptolocker and the ASD top 4 and 35

Crypto “levels up”  In recent developments of Cryptolocker variants, the added element of “scareware” has been introduced. Trading on the success of the “Jigsaw” character in the horror genre of movies, users are extorted more money as minutes pass and even more if the machine is re-booted. This added element of social engineering the user […]