Here are samples of some of the zero-day or fastbreak email scams purporting to be from a variety of well-known brands.
MailGuard have identified and have successfully blocked all these zero-day phishing email threats and are protecting all our corporate clients from falling victim.
Here are screenshots of the types of emails to watch out for along with the fake phishing landing pages:
By clicking the link to supposedly verify your account, you are actually taken to the following landing page which will phish for Apple log in credentials.
Here is a sample of the landing page email recipients are taken to, to supposedly ‘access’ their tax return. Notice the URL is looks similar to the legitimate URL because the cyber criminals have created a subdomain to their domain which is w3lb.com.
Sample of the landing page with a form, which when completed gives criminals access to the recipients PayPal login credentials. Notice the URL is not that of the legitimate PayPal website which is www.paypal.com.
As a precaution, we urge you to delete emails that:
Educating staff and employing cloud-based email filtering and web filtering, complimented by multilayered defences including desktop antivirus, anti-malware and anti-spyware will go a long way to mitigating the risk from a wide range of email scams.
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