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As part of this year’s Scams Awareness Week, MailGuard has partnered with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to help shine a spotlight on identity theft and scams. This year’s theme is “Be yourself. Don’t let a scammer be you.”

As part of this year’s Scams Awareness Week, MailGuard has partnered with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to help shine a spotlight on identity theft and scams. This year’s theme is “Be yourself. Don’t let a scammer be you.”

As part of this year’s Scams Awareness Week, MailGuard has partnered with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to help shine a spotlight on identity theft and scams. This year’s theme is “Be yourself. Don’t let a scammer be you.”

In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, it's common for employees working remotely to share business documents with one another via email. It looks like cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting that trend.  

Receiving an email about supposedly pending or inaccessible messages can be alarming, but it doesn’t hurt to think twice about the credibility of the email – especially if it involves clicking on unknown links.

Dropbox is once again the subject of a new phishing campaign.

For the first time ever, Microsoft Inspire 2020, was an all-virtual conference this year.

Cybercriminals have once again exploited Westpac Bank’s trademarks in a phishing email scam.

Office 365 users are prime targets of criminal-intent email threats, and this continues to be reinforced by recent reports of massive phishing campaigns threatening to cause catastrophic damage to businesses.

Defending against Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks has long been a key component of many businesses’ cybersecurity strategies.

As many of you know by now, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced in a press conference last month that Australian private & public sector companies are being targeted in a massive cyber-attack by a "sophisticated state-based cyber actor". 

Why are some business owners still not paying attention and underestimating a real business risk? A staggering 80% of Australian companies believe their cybersecurity investments are ‘failing’.

Confidential business documents such as contracts, legal documents and finance records are commonly passed on from one recipient to another via email, and cybercriminals often use these as trojan horses to deliver malicious attacks.

MailGuard has intercepted another email phishing scam purporting to be from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). This scam email forms part of yet another variation of the ATO scam distributed by cybercriminals over many years.

Cybercriminals continue to leverage popular trends like online shopping to prey on consumers and trick them into revealing confidential data.