A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week.
Phishers have added a new lure to their tackle boxes: e-mails that ask people to fax sensitive information to bogus security investigators.
A new mass-mailer virus designed to seize credit-card information and passwords has surfaced in the United States overnight and poses a threat to computer users in Australia.
A strain of malware disguised as anti-spyware has become the latest double-agent in multi-step "convergence" crime online.
A new Trojan horse making the rounds has been installing itself as a Firefox extension, according to security company McAfee.
Sceptical that Australians are targeted by cybercrime? Late last year the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) was asked to repatriate hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customer credentials which had been stolen via the ZeuS trojan.
An estimated 27,000 people have been affected by an identity theft ring that was discovered earlier this month, according to Sunbelt Software, the security company that uncovered the operation.
Security weaknesses in Microsoft's server and browser software are taking their toll on Australian Internet banking sites.
Police are warning Internet users about 'Trojan' e-mails containing links to malicious Web sites that can steal sensitive information such as PINs and password log-ins from vulnerable PCs.
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