AUSTRALIA is a world leader in phishing scams and the fourth most common launching pad for internet attacks, research shows.
A recent Symantec internet security threat report, which covers trends for the six months to June 30, ranks Australia fourth behind the US, China and Canada as the ‘last known source’ of internet attacks.
Australia accounted for 4.8 per cent of all attacks, up from 2.6 per cent in the six months to the end of December, and the US dropped from 58 per cent to 37 per cent.
Symantec counted a ‘huge increase’ in the number of automated bot network attacks in the same period, Symantec managing director John Donovan said.
Bot networks use small applications installed on infected machines to launch other attacks. “
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