Ransom and extortion in the physical world is usually a big deal in Australia – from the Arnott’s Biscuits scandals in the 90s to Madeleine Pulver’s recent fake-collar-bomb ordeal, we’ve been glued to the tube. What is far less captivating, and what most Australians aren’t aware of, is the growing number of online exploits [...]
Last month, we reported on a fake AVG scam that was doing the rounds on Twitter, and this month, a new wave of spam has hit the social networking site – pushing advertisements for a free and “proven” anti-virus solution. Please be aware that the link included in such tweets is malicious and the anti-virus is fake! So [...]
At AVG (AU/NZ), we take our community’s protection seriously – so as well as providing you with great security software, we also want to keep you informed about the latest online threats and scams. We have become aware of a new mobile security threat, courtesy of our AVG Mobilation™ Research Team. The threat is a malicious application named [...]
At AVG (AU/NZ), we take our community’s protection seriously – so as well as providing you with great security software, we also want to keep you informed about the latest online threats and scams. Here’s what to look out for this week, courtesy of our Threat Research Group:
One of the most essential pieces of software that should be installed on every computer these days is undoubtedly anti-virus and anti-malware software. Not surprisingly, cybercriminals have worked out how to exploit our need for anti-virus software – by creating their own malicious and fake versions that we refer to as “Fake Anti-Virus” or “Fake [...]
We have become aware of a phishing email circulating in Australia at the moment, claiming to be from Telstra and addressed to “Dear BigPond User“.
Tuesday February 7, 2012 is Safer Internet Day in Australia. Unfortunately, today’s significance will escape a large portion of the Australian (and New Zealand) population – whilst most of the community appear more or less comfortable living parts of their lives online, the figures from AVG’s most recent Community Powered Threat Report show that cyber-crime is [...]
The Internet – a vast superhighway of information, business opportunity, entertainment and vice. Most of us use it, but does anyone really stop to think how it works? The Internet is just “out there” in most people’s perception, and this can cause businesses real problems. Most of your employees will go online without stopping to [...]
A few months ago, I had my new smartphone stolen on the train. Apart from eroding my trust in the light-fingered Melbourne public transport user base, I learnt a valuable lesson; my device was not password protected, as I found when one of my friends enquired as to why I had been posting nonsense on [...]
AVG (AU/NZ) would like to inform its customers and visitors of a new scam doing the rounds. In the coming days, you may receive an email, supposedly from Mozilla Firefox, advertising an upgrade to Firefox 8:
