• by Connor McBean
• Industry News

The regulator says that phone companies must automatically block fraudulent calls made through the internet – if they come from abroad but pretend to be UK numbers. Communications regulator Ofcom will ensure millions of potential scam phone calls never reach their target as they oblige phone companies to block fraudulent calls made from overseas. The […]

• by Connor McBean
• General Industry News

Newly published data collated by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau shows a huge spike in fraud and cybercrime so far in 2021. The UK has seen a three-fold increase in financial losses incurred from fraud and cybercrimes in the first six months of 2021. In total, £1.3bn has been lost to these kinds of crimes, a stark […]

• by Connor McBean
• Industry News

Many of us now refuse to answer telephone calls from an unknown number, for fear that it could be a scam. A recent report suggests that we are right to be cautious. In the 12 months to March 2021, phone call and text message fraud across England, Wales and Northern Ireland was up 83% from […]

• by Connor McBean
• Industry News

Security researchers have discovered an online database completely unsecured and exposed to the public internet, containing the personal details of at least 63 million Americans. The database itself contained around 126 million records. Depending on the number of duplicates in there, the number of affected individuals could be anywhere between 63 million and 126 million […]

• by Connor McBean
• Industry News

The National Lottery Community Fund has said that two missing unencrypted disks were the cause of the data breach that it warned charities about last month. The grant-maker had said that more than six years’ worth of contact and bank details had potentially been exposed to fraud. It said the breach involved data provided to […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

A fraudster has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after being caught sending out mass scam text messages about COVID-19 vaccines, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. Read via Law360.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog Industry News

There are various topics we need to address with regard to any kind of vaccine passport. If we skip those areas, then securing it will become even more challenging and the likelihood for fraud increases. Read via Computer Weekly. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog

By Derek Willins, Head of Business Development at Advent IM. Fraud (credit card, identity and cyber-fraud) is now the crime that British citizens are most likely to become a victim of. In England, the number of reported fraud crimes against the person were 3.7m, outstripping theft against the person at 3.4m (Office of National Statistics, […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog

By Derek Willins, Head of Business Development at Advent IM. Fraud (credit card, identity and cyber-fraud) is now the crime that British citizens are most likely to become a victim of. In England, the number of reported fraud crimes against the person were 3.7m, outstripping theft against the person at 3.4m (Office of National Statistics, […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog

By Derek Willins, Head of Business Development at Advent IM. Fraud (credit card, identity and cyber-fraud) is now the crime that British citizens are most likely to become a victim of. In England, the number of reported fraud crimes against the person were 3.7m, outstripping theft against the person at 3.4m (Office of National Statistics, […]