BullGuard Blog

If you have an account on LinkedIn be aware that has become one of the most popular sites for cyber criminals in phishing attacks.

Spoof Facebook accounts posing as Iceland and Morrisons have been shared thousands of times. The posts say the supermarkets have ‘thousands of food products due to expire’ that they’d ‘normally bin’, but are instead giving it all away to anyone who shares and comments on the post.

You’d think that major organisations would have cyber security nailed down, especially government departments. But not necessarily so. Recent revelations reveal how one US government agency had hackers in their network for months and had no idea.

US law enforcement has shut down one of the largest cybercriminal online forums in the world known as RaidForums. This English-language online marketplace was a go-to place for cybercriminals to buy and sell databases stolen from organizations in ransomware and other cyber attacks.