BullGuard Blog

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.

In the spirit of keeping you up to speed with the latest developments in the cyber underground, so you know what to watch out for, a phishing-as-a-service operation has been uncovered that’s selling fake log-in pages for services such as Microsoft’s OneDrive, American Express and Google Docs.

Watch out for fake messages claiming to be from the NHS demanding that you order a PCR testing kit. The message appears as a text but could also surface as an email.

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.