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Origin Energy “refund” scam, in a handful of easy steps

MailGuard has intercepted a multi-stage phishing campaign impersonating Origin Energy and offering a fake $150 overpayment ...

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Emmanuel Marshall 22 August 2018 1 min read

Phoney QuickBooks email used in new fraud

If you’ve seen this email in your inbox, best to delete it immediately. It’s a new scam ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 22 August 2018 8 min read

Smaller companies are “vulnerable targets”: Australian cybersecurity chief

There has been a 2500% increase in the sale of cybercrime kits on the dark-web since ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 21 August 2018 3 min read

NAB Bank branding hijacked in new credit card fraud

The NAB Bank's branding has been exploited by criminals in a new phishing fraud detected ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 20 August 2018 2 min read

Fake American Express notification phishing for email passwords

The email shown above is a new phishing attack detected by MailGuard. The message sender ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 17 August 2018 6 min read

$10k lost in latest email fraud against Aussie business

This week the SMH reported the story of the small business owner who lost AU$10,000 in an ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 15 August 2018 6 min read

Email fraud up 46% on 2017: businesses losing $ billions

Claire, an intern at a small legal firm, sits down at her desk after getting back from a ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 14 August 2018 3 min read

Hackers use email fraud to rob ATMs

The FBI warned US banks last week that they are expecting a large-scale fraud attack ...
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Craig McDonald 10 August 2018 7 min read

Medical sector facing a new kind of plague

I had a group of friends over for dinner a couple of weeks ago, one of whom is a doctor. ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 10 August 2018 2 min read

Fake OneDrive notification

If you see this message show up in your inbox, please delete it; it’s a phishing attack. ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 07 August 2018 5 min read

Cybercrime an “urgent, evolving crisis”: US Security Chief

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just announced a new division ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 06 August 2018 3 min read

Office 365 branding exploited in new phishing attack

Microsoft’s stature as a trusted household name makes them a lucrative brandjacking ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 02 August 2018 3 min read

Caution: this CommBank email is a fake

If you’ve visited the login screen above, you may have fallen victim to a new phishing ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 30 July 2018 2 min read

Telstra's trademarks exploited in new email scam

MailGuard has detected a new email-based cyber-attack using Telstra branding to try and ...
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Craig McDonald 23 July 2018 8 min read

The imitation game: email fraud, phishing & brandjacking

The term “imitation game” comes from a paper Alan Turing wrote in 1960 called Computing ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 23 July 2018 2 min read

New phishing attack using forged AVG branding

MailGuard has detected a new scam that is using fake AVG branding to try and trick ...
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