BullGuard Blog

The last 18 months have seen a raft of phishing mails, malware and social engineering scams all designed to exploit uncertainty and anxiety arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and related issues. The striking points are the speed with which these scams appeared, how quickly they spread and of course, how large numbers of people fell for them.

To those in the industry it won’t be a surprise but cybercriminals from Russia and neighbouring states are behind the majority of online extortion conducted against businesses and other organisations in Britain, according to the UK’s cybersecurity agency. To this we can also say pretty much the same applies to Western Europe and also to a large ...

A spate of phishing mails purporting be from UK supermarkets, Asda, Morrisons and Tesco have been catching people out. The email messages promises gift cards of up to £100 for completing a marketing survey, which of course is a hoax.

Fraud in the UK has risen to a level where it poses a “national security threat”, according to the main banking body, with £754m stolen from bank customers during the first half of this year – a 30% rise on the same period in 2020.