BullGuard Blog

Here’s a roundup of the latest scams circulating in the UK. If you’re reading this blog from another country the specifics of these scams won’t apply but lessons can still be learnt. Scam messages will differ but the underlying dynamics are always the same – to scam you out of your money.

It’s a sobering figure. More than £50 million was lost last year to scams where victims were tricked into handing over control of their computer or smartphone to criminals, says the City of London police. And according to Action Fraud, the UK national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, 20,144 people fell victim to scams where they were p...

Hydra, the world's largest dark web marketplace, has been taken down by German law enforcement. It’s a significant coup for the authorities given that nature of business transacted on this website included narcotic sales, stolen data, illicit goods and services including cyberattack tools, forged documents and more.

Cyber villains are targeting Office 365 and Google Workspace users with a phishing email that contains a fake WhatsApp private voicemail. The email includes a ‘play’ button so the message can be listened to.