BullGuard Blog

Everybody’s favourite government department HMRC (the taxman), has detected more than 450 Covid financial support scams, responded to more than one million reports of suspicious contact and reported more than 13,000 malicious web pages in the past year.

JD Wetherspoon pubs may have pulled out of social media advertising in 2018 but that hasn’t stopped scammers from using the company as a hook to trick Facebook users with fake meal vouchers. People who commented on the posts published by the fake Wetherspoons pages were told they will win meal vouchers if they receive comments from Wetherspoons.

If ever there was an example of how a relatively unskilled hacker can use off-the-shelf malware and sustain an undetected attack for years it must surely be the actions of a miscreant who was recently targeting the aviation sector.

Put together Internet of Things devices with 5G broadband and you’ve got what industry marketers are calling smart cities.  That is hundreds of thousands of connected devices ranging traffic lights to emergency services, transport, civil infrastructure, CCTV and more all connected to and controlled over the internet.