Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis argued that crypto’s transparency creates a “powerful flywheel” of fraud disruption.

The Fraud Minister, Lord Hanson, has laid out the government's Fraud Strategy, which will invest £250m over the next three years to tackle fraud in the UK. Which? has been campaigning for better scam ...

Criminals using artificial intelligence tools to take over mobile, bank and online shopping accounts, says Cifas Criminals are increasingly exploiting AI technology to take over people’s mobile, ...

One in four (24%) adults say they encounter scams multiple times each week, a report has found. Emails, phone calls, texts, social media messages, digital adverts and online marketplaces were common ...

The UK’s Online Crime Centre, launching next month, will bring together government, police, intelligence agencies, banks, mobile networks and tech firms to take coordinated action against cyber fraud.

Scammers are keeping people on their toes across the UK – but nowhere more so than in Oxford, where residents search for scam advice almost twice as often as the national average, according to new ...

The Telegram messaging app is the fastest-growing source of online scams, a report has found. One in five fraud cases (20pc) ...

Most of us would make the logical assumption that young people, having grown up with smartphones practically welded to their ...

According to the Q4 2024 Global Call Threat Report, UK residents received an average of four spam calls per month, with the share of unknown spam calls rising from 28% to 32%. This tally has ...

New figures emerging from the United Kingdom suggest that deepfake-enabled fraud has moved beyond sporadic experimentation and into a phase of sustained, industrial-scale criminal activity. According ...

New UK Online Crime Centre will combine expertise from a range of sources to takedown online channels cyber-scammers rely on ...

The UK government has issued a policy paper on how to combat fraud against individuals and businesses from 2026 to 2029, specifically noting that its strategy would consider digital assets. In a paper ...