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Fake Telstra "Duplicate Payment" Refund Scam Targets Australians

A new phishing campaign is impersonating Telstra, using a fabricated duplicate invoice payment to lure recipients into a fake ...

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Jaclyn McRae 20 September 2016, 2 min read

Breaking: Bold PayPal scam phishes for passwords, bank details and ATM pin

A brazen new PayPal phishing email attempts to steal a range of private information ...
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Jaclyn McRae 19 September 2016, 2 min read

Accounting sector targeted in successive Trojan email attacks

Accountants and bookkeepers have been the target of high-volume phishing attacks in the ...
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Jaclyn McRae 14 September 2016, 1 min read

Latest threat: New Google Drive phishing scam hits inboxes

A new Google Drive phishing scam email hitting inboxes today uses a compromised account ...
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Jaclyn McRae 14 September 2016, 3 min read

Breaking: Cybercriminals impersonate Intuit QuickBooks client in invoice scam

A major cloud-accounting provider is being impersonated in a malicious new email scam.
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MailGuard Editor 12 September 2016, 4 min read

Cybercriminals launch fake Xero invoice attack, delivering malware

Scam emails leveraging the familiar brand of cloud accounting company Xero have delivered ...
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Jaclyn McRae 9 September 2016, 2 min read

Breaking: Microsoft brand again centre of cyber scam

The world’s biggest brand names are being used to trick people into handing over ...
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Craig McDonald 7 September 2016, 4 min read

Email scam tactics explained: What are phishing, spear phishing and whaling?

Every day, cyber criminals are dreaming up new get-rich-quick schemes. Whether ...
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Jaclyn McRae 5 September 2016, 2 min read

Don’t click: Zero-day Optus invoice scam deploys malware

A large run of fake Optus emails uses realistic branding and varying body content to ...
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Jaclyn McRae 1 September 2016, 2 min read

Breaking: Realistic phishing scam again preys on PayPal users

A fake website designed to mimic the official PayPal site is being used in a ploy to ...
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Jaclyn McRae 31 August 2016, 1 min read

Breaking: High-volume malware attack thwarted

MailGuard is today blocking a large-scale run of email attacks aiming to implant malware ...
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Jaclyn McRae 30 August 2016, 2 min read

Breaking: Zero-day Russian invoice scam targets businesses

A sophisticated fast-breaking payload email identified by MailGuard today exploits a bug ...
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Jaclyn McRae 26 August 2016, 3 min read

Breaking: Fake ATO phishing scam uses tax return to lure victims

A highly-sophisticated new ATO phishing scam uses the lure of a tax refund to steal ...
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Annamaria Montagnese 11 August 2016, 2 min read

Going postal. Email scams target Australia Post & New Zealand Post customers with Cerber Ransomware

Over the course of 48 hrs cybercriminals have distributed an email scam targeting ...
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Annamaria Montagnese 28 July 2016, 2 min read

Fake DHL Email Malware Scam Detected

MailGuard have successfully identified and blocked an email malware scam circulated by ...
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Annamaria Montagnese 21 July 2016, 3 min read

Bad Apple - New Email Phishing Scam Targets User Credentials

In a new twist on many of the Apple scams we’ve seen before, cybercrime networks are ...
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