BullGuard Blog

It’s a truism of sorts that ‘What happens over there, will at some point happen over here too.’ That is, events, culture, fashions and so on that originated in the US will at some point make it to the shores of the UK and to some extent wider Europe too.

A new delivery scam impersonating the UK Post Office has been discovered and it uses very convincing clone websites. Previous related scams have used Royal Mail, DPD and Hermes company branding as cover but the Post Office us used by millions of people every day so the scale of fraud is potentially much larger.

You know what credential stuffing is. It’s a common cyberattack method in which attackers use lists of compromised user credentials to breach system. These systems could be anything from Amazon.com, PayPal, Netflix, Gmail or other popular online services, retailers to food outlets, sports shops and so on.

The French data protection watchdog has hit Facebook and Google with fines of €150 million and €60 million respectively for violating EU privacy rules by failing to provide users with an easy option to reject cookie tracking technology.