More than 270,000 malicious emails impersonating Services Australia and Centrelink have flooded Australian inboxes in one of the nation’s largest phishing campaigns in years, with the sophisticated attacks specifically targeting the country’s most vulnerable citizens.

The massive campaign, uncovered by human risk management platform Mimecast, has been bombarding Australians with fake government emails averaging 70,000 messages per month over the past four months, with attackers using artificial intelligence to create near-perfect clones of legitimate government communications.

The emails mimic government correspondence about Medicare, JobSeeker payments, Superannuation, and Family Tax Benefits with alarming accuracy.

“This particular attack is a significant cause for concern,” Mimecast

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