MailGuard Blog

Video conferencing platform Zoom continues to be popular among cybercriminals looking to trick email users.

With more businesses implementing remote working policies for their employees in light of the COVID-19 crisis, the usage of popular videoconferencing apps like Zoom is rising – and cybercriminals are using this spike to their advantage.

Receiving an email about supposedly pending or inaccessible messages can be alarming, but it doesn’t hurt to think twice about the credibility of the email – especially if it involves clicking on unknown links.

MailGuard has intercepted a phishing email scam purporting to be from Suncorp.

Netflix users, don’t panic if you receive an email claiming your account information needs to be ‘reset’. The popular entertainment company has once again been spoofed by cybercriminals in a phishing email scam.

MailGuard has intercepted a phishing email scam masquerading as an e-invite to an ‘end of year event’.

Confidential business documents such as contracts, legal documents and finance records are commonly passed on from one recipient to another via email. But how can you tell if links to such important documents are safe to click when they appear in your inbox?

Extortion email scams have been on the rise lately, fueled by multiple data breaches that have leaked mass amounts of personal information. MailGuard intercepted an extortion scam on the 8^th of December morning (AEST).

Users of Westpac Bank’s online banking services are advised to be on the lookout for a malicious email purporting to be from the bank. The email was first detected by MailGuard on the 5^th of December evening (AEST).

Exercise caution if you receive an email supposedly from Commonwealth Bank. MailGuard has detected a phishing email scam spoofing the bank is infiltrating inboxes.

MailGuard has detected a new email scam that uses a ‘voicemail’ to deliver a phishing attack.

Don’t panic if you receive an email supposedly from Mailgun Technologies and/or SendGrid claiming that your account services are going to be suspended.

E-commerce company PayPal has once again been embroiled in a phishing email scam designed to harvest confidential data of users.

Westpac users are advised not to panic if they receive a legitimate-looking email spoofing the bank, advising them to verify their account details.

Last week, we intercepted a phishing email scam purporting to be from Netflix. It asked users to update their payment information via a malicious link.