Top 3 Scams to look out for this month
This blog is an update on 3 common scams we have found to be active recently. These are scams to be looking out for other the course of the [...]
Royal Mail Chatbot Scam
A scam that involves a fake chatbot is doing the rounds asking victims for sensitive information including payment details, addresses, and full names. The scam originates from a phishing [...]
Malware Posing as Russia DDoS Tool Hits Pro-Ukraine Hackers
Several cyber activist groups have joined the fight to disrupt Russia’s infrastructure and attempt to cause chaos. They use resources to target key sectors of the Russian government such [...]
Cost of Cyber Attacks
Gloucester City Council suffered from a data breach in December which affected many of their online services. So far the financial cost for recovering from this cyberattack is £250,000 [...]
Russia a critical threat to UK businesses
As tensions rise further in Eastern Europe, the UK government's involvement has put UK businesses under threat of increased Russian cyber-attacks. GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) and NCSC (National Cyber [...]
Google Voice authentication being used to set up international numbers for scammers.
How does it work? Google Voice is a service that lets you set up a virtual phone number that can be used to make calls and send texts across [...]
reCAPTCHA broken using Google’s own Speech-to-Text tool
reCAPTCHA is Google's name for its own CAPTCHA tool. CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. You have most likely [...]
Scammers pretending to be Broadband Providers are gaining remote access to PC’s
Scammers pretending to be broadband providers to gain personal identity information (PII) is nothing new. But now scammers are using this kind of attack to gain access to your [...]
GoDaddy Data Breach Affecting 1.2 Million Customers
The largest domain registrar in the world confirmed on Monday that an unknown third party has gained access to their systems on September 6th and had access for over [...]
Deepfakes: the Future Threat
The future of phishing attacks is getting closer and closer. Deepfake technology has been around in some form or another for a while, but we expect it to become [...]
