Tag: phishing
Two phishing campaigns are targeting hotels and short-stay accommodation providers during peak travel season, using lures designed to be indistinguishable from everyday reservations traffic. Cybersecurity firm, Bitdefender, has documented …
The most effective email attacks no longer look like attacks. Over the last month, Barracuda researchers have tracked a set of campaigns that share a single direction of travel: …
Security researchers at Barracuda have identified a series of phishing campaigns that use real Microsoft login pages, weaponised PDF attachments and a rare “split-click” technique to steal session tokens …
The Logokit phishing-as-a-service platform has evolved over the past year from a standard phishing kit into a real-time deception tool that generates customised phishing pages tailored to each individual …
Check Point Software Technologies has released its 2026 Exposure Gap Report, drawing on data from real customer environments across four industries to reveal that the proportion of critical vulnerability …
Cybersecurity firm Barracuda has detected more than 7 million device code phishing attacks over a four-week period, warning that the technique is being industrialised through phishing-as-a-service tools and poses …
An international law enforcement operation that disrupted the phishing-as-a-service platform Tycoon 2FA in early March has cut its attack volume by 77 per cent, but the platform’s tools and …
Australians reported more than $2 billion in financial losses to scams in 2025, with investment fraud accounting for the single largest category of loss, according to the National Anti-Scam …
Cybercriminals are scaling automation, deploying bots that convincingly mimic human behaviour and building fake identities from stolen data fragments, according to the latest annual cybercrime report from LexisNexis Risk …
Australian organisations have grown used to a familiar rhythm of cyber risk. A phishing campaign here, a compromised account there, the occasional ransomware scare, all handled through processes that …
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, one truth remains constant: managing human risk is essential to resilience. While threats continue to grow in complexity, the latest findings from KnowBe4’s …
Mimecast says cybercriminals are distributing tens of thousands of fake government emails across Australia in a large phishing campaign using the names of Services Australia and Centrelink to target …
Australians are facing growing risks in the digital space as artificial intelligence makes scams harder to detect and phishing attacks more convincing. A new global survey has found that …
While ghouls and goblins creep around the streets this Halloween, the scariest threats aren’t hiding under your bed or lurking in haunted houses, they’re creeping in your inbox. Forget …
It begins with a series of system slowdowns – what the IT team initially mistakes for a routine hardware issue. The investigation, however, reveals a far worse reality: a …
Cybersecurity teams have always grappled with emerging technologies, increasingly sophisticated attacks and new regulations. However, as organisations accelerate Ai and cloud adoption, digitise services and adapt to evolving compliance …
Commonwealth Bank is rolling out a new anti-scam measure known as Confirmation of Payee (CoP), a name-checking tool developed to prevent mistaken payments and reduce fraud across Australia’s banking …
Around the world organisations continue to fall victim to cyberattacks, and while every business may struggle to defend or bounce back against threat actors, small businesses especially are feeling …
We’ve all been there – you click “submit” and get a 404 error, or you’re at the cafe counter and the payment system is down. As a customer, it’s …
Cybercriminals target businesses that can’t afford downtime, making Australia’s manufacturing industry a prime target. Disrupting production means immediate financial losses, and attackers know companies will do whatever it takes …
Data egress – where data moves outside of an organisation, has become a critical area of focus for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Australia and New Zealand. Managing …
WatchGuard Technologies has released its latest Internet Security Report, which covers key cyber threats observed during the second quarter of 2024. The report highlights how threat actors are now …
Most of us are familiar with traditional phishing emails, with the tell-tale signs of a dodgy emails easy to spot. However, phishing scams are becoming more sophisticated and harder …
