Internet criminals send text messages with information about the need to pay extra PLN 3.49 to the last invoice for the phone. In the text of the message, they "scare" the recipients with the deactivation of the number. You can lose your life savings - warns Cert Orange Polska.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a time of accelerated digitization. We spend more and more time in front of computers and telephones. Criminals could not pass up such an opportunity. Today we can talk not only about the coronavirus pandemic, but also about cybercrime.

If you have received or noticed on your calendar an entry that looks strange and alerts you to a threat, beware, this is phishing!

In the last, pandemic year, cybercriminals increased their activity by taking advantage of the chaos in enterprises, institutions and households. As Bitdefender experts predict, hackers will not slow down the pace of their actions also in 2021. Experts indicate several worrying trends that are to play a significant role in the next twelve months.

How to check if a bank employee actually calls us? There should be no problem with that if the call is initiated from the official number, i.e. the bank's hotline. What if someone calls from an unknown mobile number? It may be a bank employee, but also a scammer who will try to extort our data in this channel. This scam is vishing. How to protect yourself from it?

Cybercrime does not work in the physical world and the pandemic did not stop it, on the contrary it was an additional stimulus. The move to remote work has resulted in an escalation of cybercriminal activity, said Amy Hogan Burney of the Microsoft Cybercrime Center.

"From the beginning of January, every day, we receive signals that the numbers of Poles are receiving text messages with "strange content". First, the text messages came from the "Google" override, and for several days we have been receiving reports that the same content is sent from the "VERIFY" overprint"

Experts pay attention to the increasing activity of fraudsters who impersonate Netflix and count on quick income. Attackers suggest in fake e-mails that the user's account "has been suspended", and to unblock it it is necessary to provide a number of data, but this is not true. We already dealt with a similar scam in the middle of last year.