Emerging risks for internet users
Sabeena Oberoi
Assistant Secretary, Cyber Security and Asia Pacific Branch
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital
Emerging risks for internet users
Government’s role - DBCDE
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The new Australian Government Cyber
Security Strategy set key priorities for
DBCDE:
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Educate and empower all Australians with the
information, confidence and practical tools to
protect themselves online.
Emerging risks for internet users
Emerging risks
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Phishing and vishing
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Identity theft
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Botnets
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Malware – trojans, worms, viruses
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Scam emails
Emerging risks for internet users
Fake Australian Federal Police emails
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Fake emails purporting to be from the Australian Federal Police
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Warn that the recipient’s credit card has been linked to criminal
transactions
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Links are to malicious websites
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Emails request the recipient to provide personal details as
evidence to prove their innocence
Emerging risks for internet users
A copy of a fake AFP email
Australian Federal Police case no : 24531987/AFP/832
The AFP's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division has been notified about several suspicious payments from your credit card account. Upon closer investigation we concluded that nine (9) of your payments are related to known criminal organizations, some of them currently under investigation for participating in the recent cybernetic attacks on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Your
case has received code 2 priority and you are under suspicion of aiding known criminals. Your credit card account may have helped the criminals in their attacks.
In order to prove your lack of culpability please click here (this is a secure link to our server).
Please note that failure to cooperate will lead to the advancement of our investigation. You will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Your assets and funds will be frozen until the end of our investigation.
This is a federal investigation, you will not contact your local authorities or bank; you will wait for one of our agents to contact you within 48 hours. We suspect local involvment in this matter. Failure to do so will ad a charge of "obstruction of justice" to you.
As a measure of precaution AFP is able to provide free monitoring of your account against all future hacking and phishing attack. We respect your privacy, we will not monitor your account transactions or personal info. Our software has a 99.57% rate of success in detecting and stoping cybernetic attacks. Also we have agents supervising the software 24/7. If you wish to subscribe to this service, more info will be provided when our agent contacts you.
