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One of the biggest challenges in cybersecurity is keeping up with the new attacks that criminals are creating.

In a year gutted by a worldwide pandemic, the 2020 year-end holiday and shopping season will be unlike any other.

Neil Stephenson imagined a meta-verse in his 1992 novel, Snow Crash. A vision of an interactive computer-generated reality or virtual world. A fully immersive persistent experience that we are all plugged into. Maybe we’re not there yet, but we are far closer today than we were pre-pandemic, and it’s a scary peak into the future power that cyber villains may wield.

It’s October again, an important month on the cybersecurity calendar as the world marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM).

“Service NSW confirms 180,000 customers' personal details exposed in cyber security breach” 
“A cyber-crime is reported every ten minutes in Australia” 
“NAB flags cyber-attacks during the pandemic have intensified” 

Suzanne Collins, author of the famous trilogy, The Hunger Games, once wrote: “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”  

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected a phishing invoice email scam sent via a single compromised sender.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected a phishing email scam spoofing Suncorp.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected a phishing email scam spoofing NAB.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected a phishing email scam spoofing Zenith Bank.

Last week, MailGuard detected multiple variations of a phishing email scam spoofing National Australia Bank (NAB).

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected multiple variations of a phishing email scam spoofing National Australia Bank (NAB).

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.

Box, a popular cloud-based file sharing and collaboration platform for business, is the subject of the latest brandjacking email that started landing in inboxes Tuesday (AEST).

Be on the lookout for USD Wire Transfer hoax emails that began appearing in inboxes Tuesday (AEST). The simple emails claim to contain a payment confirmation, however the attachment is in fact a payload designed to execute malicious material when opened.