BankWest is the latest bank to be brandjacked in another online banking scam this week. Customers are informed in an email that their “online access will be discontinued and deleted ... due to a failure to comply with our online update regulations.”

Businesses are susceptible to debilitating cyberattacks at any time of the day. Savvy business leaders know that all it takes is one click on the wrong link for their business to be compromised. And as we know, 'clicks happen.'

Brandjacking - where cybercriminals impersonate the brands we trust, in order to fool us into clicking on malicious content - has affected some of the world’s biggest companies, past and present. 

Anyone can be a target of brandjacking scams.

Cybercriminals have once again exploited ANZ Banking Group’s trademarks in a phishing email scam.

A new email scam detected by MailGuard is spoofing popular cloud accounting company Xero to try and gain the trust of potential victims.

MailGuard has intercepted a payload email scam impersonating global logistics giant DHL.

E-commerce company PayPal has once again been embroiled in an email scam. It is suspected that the email scam spoofing the company is a phishing one designed to harvest confidential details of PayPal users.

Through minor modifications in their approach, cybercriminals are often able to develop new threat variants in an attempt to bypass existing security solutions.

MailGuard intercepted another variant of a payload email scam infiltrating Australian inboxes. They were first detected on Wednesday morning, the 15^th of May (AEST).   

Worried that your company will be the next victim of a cyberattack? You should be. From Facebook to Google, Marriott Hotels to British Airways, it seems companies of all industries and sizes are increasingly susceptible to a cyberattack as each day passes.  

Do not be too quick to click everything in your inbox. Cybercriminals circulated multiple variations of a malicious phishing email scam on Friday (AEST).

Careful not to click through on the latest email phishing scam impersonating Microsoft Exchange. The first run of the attack began hitting email inboxes on Thursday morning AEST, 9^th May 2019.

The power of the pioneering spirit

Popular telecommunications company Optus has once again been spoofed by cybercriminals.

A MailGuard client since February 2018, Capitol Health is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging services to the Australian healthcare market. Their objective is to build a leading healthcare business with potential for sustainable growth and profitability.  

We spoke to Brendan Revell, head of IT at Capitol Health to find out more about the company’s cybersecurity strategy and their experiences working with MailGuard.

With the scale and reach of malicious cyber activity affecting Australian public and private sector organisations and individuals becoming unprecedented, the Australian Prime Minister has reiterated the need for the country to boost its cyber defence capabilities.