MailGuard Blog

It’s officially silly (shopping) season. Inboxes around the world are starting to fill up with crazy hot sales, festive deals, and year-end promotions.

MailGuard has detected a new scam based on fake E-Toll and MyTax emails.

Popular cloud accounting company Xero is among the latest firms to be brandjacked. Cybercriminals are sending hoax invoice notifications purporting to be from the company to users.

Extortion phishing scams have been on the rise lately, fuelled by multiple data breaches that have leaked mass amounts of personal information. MailGuard intercepted a particularly large run of such a scam on early Wednesday AEST. There are several variations of the email scam, each attempting to blackmail their target.

Shady and shifty or just another regular Jo? Much like Ted Bundy was considered a charismatic guy, you can never be too sure of the biggest personnel threats to your organisation. Don’t we always see in the news that it’s Susan the lovely office manager who seems to be the one channeling company funds into her own accounts? 

You can never be too careful when clicking on any links or attachments sent via email, even if the sender purports to be someone from an established and well-known company.

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

Think twice before opening any attachments purporting to be from Westpac. The established bank has been brandjacked by cybercriminals attempting to steal confidential data from users.

Cybercriminals have brandjacked ANZ and are circulating fraudulent emails purporting to be from the bank in a bid to steal users’ confidential data.

Don't be fooled if your receive an email masquerading as a job application. The email contains a fraudulent resume that can infect your computer.

A fake DHL email is putting Australian inboxes at risk. 

“How did I fall for that?”

Malicious files can masquerade in any form, and cybercriminals often take advantage of this fact when tricking innocent victims.

Released last week, Gemalto’s Breach Level Index found that over 4.5 billion data records were breached in the first half of this year - up 1,751% from the same time last year. That translates to 291 data records being breached per second in the first half of 2018.

As cybercrime morphs and evolves in complexity, cybercriminals are increasingly mimicking well-known brands and trusted companies, brandjacking them in a bid to infect computer systems and to steal sensitive data.