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People are being warned about a series of scam text messages claiming to be from NHS Test and Trace. The messages falsely tell the recipient they should click on a link for a Covid test as they have been in…
Last week, cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., the U.S. and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. According to a report published by the blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, organizations have…
Meta (Facebook’s corporate parent) and the digital banking company Chime have filed a joint lawsuit against two Nigerian citizens for allegedly impersonating Chime in phishing attacks, BleepingComputer reports. The defendants are accused of using “more than five Facebook accounts and…
In the wake of the great reset, cybercriminals are finding success posing as legitimate companies in job postings seeking new hires on well-known job sites. This month, the FBI issued a warning about “security weaknesses” on job recruitment websites. These…
Abusing cloud providers including Microsoft Azure and AWS, cybercriminals are setting up malicious infrastructure to hide their operations and avoid detection. There are two parts to this story about a new cyberattack spotted in the wild by Cisco Talos –…
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) experienced an astonishing 2650% increase in email attacks during 2021, according to official figures obtained by the Parliament Street think tank following a Freedom of Information request. The figures revealed that email attacks targeting the UK’s…
