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If it were measured as a country cybercrime would be the world’s third-largest economy after the US and China. According to one analysis the cost of cybercrime costs will reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. It’s a staggeringly high figure and one that is set to be more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined.

A new twist on a delivery scam uses fake chatbots that sneakily sign victims up for expensive monthly subscriptions. The scam centres around Royal Mail and starts with a phishing mail inviting you to ‘start a chat’ to trace a delivery.

Searching the internet for cheats and hacks that might give you an unfair competitive advantage is the stuff of gaming for many gamers. They can discover short cuts in games, how to bag some extra skins and weapons or how to bust through the game space time fabric and meld your character into a part of building so opponents can’t find you.

Following analysis of hundreds of thousands of phishing websites security researchers have discovered a significant rise in the number of websites designed specifically for mobile phishing attacks.