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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.

MailGuard has detected an email scam today using fake Origin branding to make it look like an electricity bill notification.

As you can see in the screenshot above, this is a well-designed scam message. The criminals behind this attack have gone to the trouble of registering 4 new domains and using them as email sender domains to make their emails look more legitimate:

If your inbox is a daily battle between real company communications and fraud imposters, you’re not alone. 

Utilities company Origin Energy has had its brand hijacked in a large-scale malware scam for the fourth time in two months.

A huge uptick in email-based fraud attempts has continued, with an enormous distribution of fake Origin Energy invoices containing malware.

Australians are being inundated by a huge spike in malicious email attacks coinciding with the end of financial year, led by a fresh batch of Origin Energy emails harbouring malware.

 Australians are warned not to click a convincing fake Origin Energy electricity bill which contains a direct link to malware.