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Following NAB, Westpac, ANZ and BankWest, another bank has now been embroiled in an email scam. MailGuard intercepted a phishing email scam spoofing Zenith Bank that is designed to harvest confidential details of users.

Last week, MailGuard detected multiple variations of a phishing email scam spoofing National Australia Bank (NAB).

It looks like the series of banking-related email scams that MailGuard detected over the last month is far from over. Having imitated banks such as Westpac, ANZ and BankWest recently, cybercriminals have once again spoofed National Australia Bank (NAB) in a bid to steal users’ confidential information.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected multiple variations of a phishing email scam spoofing National Australia Bank (NAB).

The banking industry is increasingly becoming a favourite among cybercriminals. After intercepting multiple variations of an email scam spoofing NAB earlier today, MailGuard has now detected another phishing email scam purporting to be from Westpac.

Imitating leading financial institutions such as banks is a common trick adopted by cybercriminals to again access to users’ confidential data. MailGuard intercepted multiple variations of a large-scale phishing email scam purporting to come from National Australia Bank (NAB).

MailGuard began intercepting a large volume of scam emails earlier today (AEST) masquerading as Amazon. The fraudulent emails carry legitimate-looking Amazon store branding, with varying messages, although they all ultimately require users to update their account details via a link provided.

BankWest is the latest bank to be brandjacked in another online banking scam this week. Customers are informed in an email that their “online access will be discontinued and deleted ... due to a failure to comply with our online update regulations.”

Do not be too quick to click everything in your inbox. Cybercriminals circulated multiple variations of a malicious phishing email scam on Friday (AEST).

Careful not to click through on the latest email phishing scam impersonating Microsoft Exchange. The first run of the attack began hitting email inboxes on Thursday morning AEST, 9^th May 2019.

Popular telecommunications company Optus has once again been spoofed by cybercriminals.

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).

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.