Commonwealth Bank customers are the target of a new scam appearing in inboxes from ‘NetBankNotifications(at)cba(dot)com,au’. Note that the sender name features a comma ‘,’ before ‘au’ and not a dot ..read more

Telstra is Australia’s largest telecommunications company by market share. According to its website, it provides ‘around 22.5 million retail mobile services and 3.4 million retail bundle and data services’, and has ‘an international presence spanning over 20 countries ..read more

It’s the end of the financial year in Australia, which means that millions of Australians are lodging returns. In fact, at the end of last month, the ATO announced that 15.2 million individual tax return lodgements had been received for 2023, a 4% increase on the previous year. But ATO Assistant Commissioner Rob Thomson is encouraging people not to rush. In an interview with ABC News, he says “There is a much higher chance that your return will be missing important information if you lodge in early July."  ..read more

Cybercriminals are opportunists, and what better opportunity than to send an ATO link to people on the eve of the end of the financial year (EOFY). Jackpot! That’s certainly what the scammers are hoping for with this latest email scam that’s being blocked by MailGuard ..read more

“A package has been received for you”, claims this email inviting recipients to “…complete the process for successful delivery.” The scam is a simple one, with no glaring grammatical errors to alert recipients to the dangers of clicking through on the link ..read more

In a reminder that scammers are always trying to snare Office 365 credentials, this email claims to be a ‘Password Renewal Request’. Shown below, the email comes from the sender name, ‘Authetication Sevices’, a failed attempt at conveying a sense of authority and legitimacy, with the poor grammar an immediate giveaway ..read more

According to the Australian government website, ‘myGov is a simple and secure way to access government services online in one place.’ So, it stands to reason that it’s also a hot target for scammers who are trying to steal credentials. With a population over 26 million, and 3.3 million app users with daily use exceeding 782,000 times per day, it explains why myGov email scams are so prolific, and phishing kits for scammers trying to capture the credentials of innocent Australian citizens are so widely consumed ..read more

In an attempt to steal sensitive Microsoft login credentials, scammers are distributing a simple email to user inboxes with a prominent blue button requesting that they ‘Re-authenticate Now’, to ‘avoid potential disruption to your account ..read more

The MailGuard team is currently blocking an email scam impersonating MetaMask, the crypto wallet and gateway to blockchain apps, with over 100 million users worldwide ..read more

As DocuSign proudly boast of ‘more than 1,000,000 paying customers and over a billion users worldwide’, it’s easy to see why the company is such an appealing target for impersonation in phishing scams ..read more