MailGuard Blog

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

A new phishing email scam intercepted by MailGuard is a good reminder of the importance of thinking twice before clicking on links within an email – even if it appears to be sent from a legitimate sender.

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

MailGuard has intercepted a new email scam purporting to be from Dropbox, a popular file sharing and collaboration platform among business.

ANZ Banking Group customers, don’t be alarmed if you receive an email claiming your Internet Banking service has been suspended. The bank has once again been spoofed by cybercriminals in a phishing email scam.

With cybercrime growing in sophistication everyday, cybercriminals continue employing sneaky techniques to trick users.

MailGuard has intercepted a phishing email masquerading as an automated file-sharing notification, designed to harvest your confidential credentials.

MailGuard has intercepted a phishing email masquerading as a notification from a “Principal Solicitor”. Titled “Approval letters for revised contract”, the email appears to be sent from a “Principal Solicitor” at “Troylab Property Lawyers”. This organisation doesn’t actually exist. The email actually comes from a compromised mailbox of another company.

MailGuard has intercepted a phishing email purporting to be an automatically generated notification, sent supposedly from recipient’s "Mail Cloud system".

Here’s a good reminder of why it doesn’t hurt to think twice before clicking on links within an email – even if it appears to be sent from a known sender.

For the first time ever, Microsoft Inspire 2020, was an all-virtual conference this year.

Brandjacking - where cybercriminals impersonate the brands we trust, in order to fool us into clicking on malicious content - has affected some of the world’s biggest companies, past and present. 

Anyone can be a target of brandjacking scams.

Microsoft’s stature as a trusted household name makes them a lucrative brandjacking target for cybercriminals.

This latest phishing attack - shown in the screenshot above - uses the “Office 365” trademark to persuade recipients that the email is legitimate and get them to click on the “recover messages” link.

‘Alone we will fail,’ was the message from Alastair MacGibbon, Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre and keynote speaker at MailGuard’s2018 Cybersecurity Awareness Luncheon.

On Tuesday 6 March, MailGuard collaborated with PWC and Microsoft to bring together CEOs and cybersecurity experts in a forum focussed on the rise of cybercrime and the challenges it presents for business.

This month, an Office 365 outage meant that many of Microsoft’s European customers were unable to log into their email accounts or access related services.

If you’ve recently migrated to Office 365, you may have experienced periods when your email was either unavailable, or performing slower than required.