MailGuard Blog

As Easter approaches, you may be planning on enjoying a fun weekend with your family, but cybercriminals are likely hopping around trying to send new email scams your way.  

A new email scam impersonating the popular invoicing app, Invoice2Go is hitting Australian inboxes. Cybercriminals are sending hoax invoice notifications purporting to be from the company to users. These malicious emails were first detected by MailGuard today morning (AEST).  

Cybercrime networks are once again sending email scams purporting to come from popular telecommunications company, Optus. MailGuard detected several such malicious emails throughout the day on Tuesday.  

If you’ve been checking the news anytime in the past month you would have heard about the massive Citrix data breach, when hackers reportedly accessed 6 to 10 Terabytes (TB) of confidential internal information in early March.  

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected an email scam spoofing popular cloud accounting firm, Xero.

Popular cloud accounting company Xero has once again been spoofed in an email scam.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected an email scam spoofing popular entertainment company, Netflix. 

Popular entertainment company Netflix has once again been embroiled in a phishing email scam.

Are you scared or excited about the future of AI? Perhaps a combination of both? As a technology insider, I’m really excited about the prospects for AI in the coming years, and the transformative implications it holds for each and every industry.

MailGuard has intercepted another email phishing scam purporting to be from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). 

Extortion phishing scams have been on the rise lately, often preying on a mix of humiliation and embarrassment to trick recipients. MailGuard intercepted a particularly large run of such a scam around midday (AEDT) on Sunday, the 17^th of March.

Do you go on holidays without buying travel insurance? I sure don’t. When I’m in Champagne's exotic vineyards or tasting fine wine somewhere during my Taste Champagne adventures, I want to be sure that my trip isn’t ruined with a big hospital bill. 

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected an email scam spoofing popular telecommunications company, Optus. 

Exactly a month ago, MailGuard shared details of an email scam purporting to be from Optus, using the domain ‘optusnet.com.au’. Now, we have detected another very similar run of scam emails that use the same domain name and employ similar techniques to trick unsuspecting recipients.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected an email scam spoofing ANZ Bank.