Home affairs minister says small businesses should be cautious of emails from people posing as CrowdStrike or Microsoft
‘I ask Australians to be really cautious over the next few days about attempts to use this for scamming or phishing', Clare O’Neil says of Microsoft IT outage.‘I ask Australians to be really cautious over the next few days about attempts to use this for scamming or phishing', Clare O’Neil says of Microsoft IT outage.from a global outage of Windows systems running the cybersecurity company Crowdstrike’s software, after the company issued a faulty update.
“I ask Australians to be really cautious over the next few days about attempts to use this for scamming or phishing,” she said. “If you see an email, if you see a text message that looks a little bit funny, that indicates something about CrowdStrike or IT outages, just stop. Don’t put any details.” She said if people receive calls along those lines they should hang up, and if people do hand over their banking information then to contact their bank immediately to report it.
The Australian Cyber Security Centre warned on Saturday that a number of malicious websites and “unofficial code” were being released, claiming to help businesses recover from the outage. The centre said it “strongly encourages all consumers to source their technical information and updates from official CrowdStrike sources only”.that malicious activity includes phishing emails posing as CrowdStrike support or independent researchers selling scripts to automate recovery from the issue.
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