An Iraqi immigrant smashed up and set fire to his Auckland home before allegedly attacking several family members.

Police are tonight still hunting four men after a middle-aged woman was brutally attacked in her home on Auckland's North Shore early today.

A woman who suffered serious fractures and cuts to her face in a home invasion early today was not the victim of a random attack, police say.

A high-profile criminal is accused of master-minding mortgage frauds described as NZ's most complicated, costly and cunning.