by Tricerion | Jul 8, 2021 | Cyberthieves, Digital Vaccination Passports
NHS trusts are warning people to remain vigilant as criminals attempt to con people into handing over money or bank details for a fake Covid-19 vaccine passport. Emails are being sent to potential victims with links to fake but worryingly convincing NHS websites that...
by Tricerion | Mar 26, 2021 | Cyberthieves, Phishing
A new report detailing 2020’s cybersecurity trends reveals a record-breaking year for phishing and ransomware threats. ▶ Phishing attacks increased more than 660% from 2019 ▶ Remote workers were the cause of half of all data breaches, and 60% of remote...
by Tricerion | Feb 24, 2021 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Phishing
Fraudsters are sophisticated and prolific. They are often successful by impersonating a legitimate organisation, such as your bank, and tricking you into giving away your personal and bank details on a fake website that looks like the real thing. Key to us is being...
by Tricerion | Feb 26, 2015 | Cyberthieves, Passwords, Phishing, Trends, Vulnerabilities
As you are reading this post, several thousand data records will have been stolen. A recent study published by Gemalto shows that almost a billion data records were lost in 2014 as a result of 1,352 major data breach incidents that occurred around the world, with the...
by Tricerion | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, Cyberthieves, Retail
While identity theft is no joke, we can’t help but notice that the recent Paddy Power breach struck online gamblers. Nearly 650,000 user credentials were stolen, and according to statistics, many of those credentials will also work for those users’ bank accounts and...
by Tricerion | May 28, 2014 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Passwords, Trends, Vulnerabilities
If cyber crime in 1990s was the Wild West and you had to ride the mail coach to be noticed and targeted by for criminals, modern cyber attacks look more like nuclear bomb blasts. Criminals go for massive data breaches because a phishing attack is a numbers game. The...
