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The attacks can take many names, from CEO Fraud, to Whaling and Business Email Compromise. Whichever name you choose, spear phishing attacks impersonating influential executives continue to be a big problem for businesses of all sizes.

In a new email scam breaking early Monday, the same cybercrime network behind the recent AGL attacks appear to have moved their focus to Australia Post. The email claims that a package was unable to be delivered because nobody was home, and asks recipients to click a link.

A new Dropbox phishing scam emerged last night, with cyber criminals trying to hack the recipient’s email account by harvesting credentials from a fake Dropbox form.

A new sham Apple phishing scam has emerged, which uses a range of tactics to fool users into surrendering personal information including their account and credit card details.

A new fake Citibank phishing scam using advanced techniques to manipulate users into surrendering online banking access has emerged.

A new fake Dropbox phishing scam targeting users of the online sharing and storage platform is currently in circulation.

If you’ve made the move to Office 365 as your hosted email solution, your email is likely to be filtered using its Exchange Online Protection (EOP), which works to intercept and remove malicious content before it reaches your inbox.

The features and benefits of Office 365 are undeniable, allowing business owners and employees to access email and data from anywhere in the world via the cloud.

However, organisations transferring their operations to the cloud face a number of security implications - in particular, data access and defence against cyber threats like spam and malware.

Fortunately Office 365 features a range of security benefits, shown below, which help to mitigate risk.

MailGuard have identified and successfully blocked a recent run of email phishing attacks purporting to be from PayPal targeting PayPal users.

MailGuard have identified and successfully blocked another variation of an email phishing scam currently being circulated by cyber criminals impersonating Westpac.

MailGuard have identified and successfully blocked a 0-day email phishing scam campaign purporting to be from New Zealand’s Kiwibank.

MailGuard have successfully identified and blocked an email malware scam circulated by cyber criminals impersonating DHL today.

This outbreak has been widely distributed alerting the email recipient of a package which has been supposedly dispatched to be delivered to them.

A recent email phishing run purporting to be from PayPal is targeting PayPal users with an identity theft scam. If successful, the victim is vulnerable to having their PayPal account hijacked, their credit card credentials used to make fraudulent purchases and their identity stolen.

MailGuard have identified and successfully blocked an email phishing attack targeted at recipients using Microsoft’s Outlook Web Application (OWA).