Author: acti

Don’t be fooled if you receive an email citing an electricity bill from AGL – you may end up paying more than just the bill. Having forged AGL’s logo and credentials, cybercriminals are sending out emails titled ‘AGL electricity bill’ to inboxes. The email informs recipients that they have received a summary of their latest […]

Emmanuel Marshall from mailguard writes: Banks are well-trusted institutions, so when cybercriminals are looking for good trademarks to use in their email attacks they often rip-off bank branding. This new scam email uses the NAB trademark to try and persuade recipients that it is a genuine notification message from their bank. The message tells the […]

Emmanuel Marshall from mailguard writes: This is the second email scam mimicking a Quickbooks notification. As you can see in the screenshot, the message is meant to look like an invoice notification message. Although this scams looks superficially similar to the one from earlier today, the sender addresses and underlying mechanisms of this attack are […]

Catalin Cimpanu from Bleeping Computer writes: Intel has launched a public bug bounty program with individual rewards going as far as $250,000, the company said today in a press release. Intel had previously run a bug bounty program, but that one was limited to submissions from a few selected security researchers only. The new bug […]

A huge uptake in email-based fraud attempts has continued, with an enormous distribution of fake Origin Energy invoices containing malware. The hoax email inundation, one of the largest ever seen, began at lunchtime Wednesday and continued until 4am today. Given the scale, we conservatively estimates the email has been directed to a quarter of Australian […]

Australians have been warned to avoid clicking a malicious email purporting to be from ASIC. The email was distributed to tens of thousands of addresses just as people arrived at work this morning. It’s one of the largest-scale fraud email inundations seen in recent times. Claiming to be from the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, […]

A massive run of scam Australia Post emails is bombarding inboxes with malware, with a clever ploy designed to evade virus-detection software. The email started distribution this morning, hitting thousands of inboxes within an hour. The message tells recipients they have a parcel to be collected at the post office. It uses Australia Post branding – […]