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MailGuard intercepted an email scam this morning that's meant to look like a message from ASIC; the Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Frequently targeted ASIC and CBA have again been impersonated in new email scams circulating from this morning (AEDT). These scams are particularly deceitful as they are so well-crafted, with no grammatical errors and on-brand formatting.

Fraudsters today kicked off a large-scale malware inundation by impersonating government body ASIC.

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A domain set up just yesterday is being used to impersonate ASIC via email to infect Australian computers with malware.

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A stolen ID may have been used to set up an elaborate ASIC email scam designed to infect victims’ systems with malware.

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A fake email allegedly from ASIC is disseminating malware on a significant scale.

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