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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).

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. 

A new email scam impersonating the popular invoicing app, Invoice2Go is hitting Australian inboxes. Cybercriminals are sending hoax invoice notifications purporting to be from the company to users. These malicious emails were first detected by MailGuard Monday morning (AEST).  

Cybercrime networks are once again sending email scams purporting to come from popular telecommunications company, Optus. MailGuard detected several such malicious emails throughout the day on Tuesday.  

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected an email scam spoofing popular cloud accounting firm, Xero.

Popular cloud accounting company Xero has once again been spoofed in an email scam.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected an email scam spoofing popular entertainment company, Netflix. 

Popular entertainment company Netflix has once again been embroiled in a phishing email scam.

MailGuard has intercepted another email phishing scam purporting to be from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). 

Extortion phishing scams have been on the rise lately, often preying on a mix of humiliation and embarrassment to trick recipients. MailGuard intercepted a particularly large run of such a scam around midday (AEDT) on Sunday, the 17^th of March.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected an email scam spoofing popular telecommunications company, Optus. 

Exactly a month ago, MailGuard shared details of an email scam purporting to be from Optus, using the domain ‘optusnet.com.au’. Now, we have detected another very similar run of scam emails that use the same domain name and employ similar techniques to trick unsuspecting recipients.