Incident: St George Bank hit by email scam | iTWire

Posted by Steven Kirby | Jun 1, 2018 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Banking and Finance, Email, Email Phishing, iTWire, Phishing | 0 |

Incident: St George Bank hit by email scam | iTWire

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: June 01 2018

A new email scam using St George Bank trademarks has been revealed, where scammers try and deceive victims into submitting their bank login details to a phishing site.

SK: Educate your customers, educate your customers, educate……
Oh, and two factor!!!!!!

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