Last week was National Cyber Smart week, and this year’s theme was “Own Your Online”. Cyber-crime today is more sophisticated than ever before. In the
Category: Cyber Scams
Do you have a Gmail account? Google Gmail is a very popular email platform, with approximately 2 billion users sending an estimated 350 billion emails
New Zealand’s loses to Cybercrime keep rising
On May 14th (2025), the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (part of the Government Communications Security Bureau – GCSB) released the results of their
The National Cyber Security Centre and CERTNZ (Computer Emergency Response Team) release a Quarterly Newsletter detailing statistics from reported incidents during that quarter. The latest
Scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and subtle catching people out; with increasing numbers of people reporting they have been the victim of a scam. There
“Hi. I’m <insert name> from Microsoft. We have detected that you have <insert problem> with your PC”. This is the start of a classic scam
SecureSphere had been hearing rumors for the last month or so, that phone scammers have been posing as New Zealand Police Officers. Until now, we
Earlier this week it was announced that DIA had busted a text scam ring operating across New Zealand. DIA released that they had carried out
