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!!!!!!
Source: St George Bank hit by email scam
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