AT LAST: Australia gets its very own malware

Australians are being targeted by a new variant of the Carberp malware under what appears to be renewed criminal interest in the antipodes. The modified trojan, Carberp.C, was spread through a spam operation masquerading as a payment invoice. Virus writers pushed the malware out a day after coding it, Symantec researcher …

[mr. deadlift]

Silver lining.

... due to their insanely piss weak internet infrastructure, the rate of infection is relatively low compared to other more advanced nations.

Yay - tick one up for team Abbott!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Silver lining.

Nah, its the internet filtering from labor that saved us. They now have all the sus web sites you visit logged in their database. When they eventually get back in power they are coming for you

[poopypants]

Yet another advantage

to using a Chromebox for most of my recreational computing stuff. (Except games, of course. So far that's been the only reason for me to occasionally wake up my big desktop PC.)

[Anonymous Coward]

Big companies are being targeted too

It's not just the little guy. All those old browsers and archaic versions of Java that big businesses in Oz still rely on to run all their mission critical operations are biting hard with this one...

[Elton van Maanen]

Australia Tax

Do we have to pay more than other countries for the decryption key?