Individuals: public advice for consumers & staff

We exist to help Organisations reduce the harm caused by cyber attacks.

Individuals have requested that we also provide this page of links to information that will be helpful to them.  Click each image below to contact the relevant agencies.

If you have been hacked:  Note that the harm caused to individuals by cyber attacks is growing. In October 2014, the UK Government stated that "51% of Britons have experienced an online crime," and provided a detailed infographic. In October 2015 the UK's Office of National Statistics published this estimate of cyber-crime. It implies that 1 in every 25 UK adults have suffered an actual cyber-crime in the last 12 months, due to computer misuse (46 in every 1,000 individuals).

Online frauds of individuals are defined by the UK's National Fraud & Cyber Crime Reporting Centre to include:

• Account takeover
• Advance fee frauds
• Bank card and cheque fraud
• Business directory fraud
• Business opportunity fraud
• Charity donation fraud
• Clairvoyant or psychic scams
• Click fraud
• Domain name scams
• Fraud recovery fraud
• Government agency scams
• Health scams
• Holiday fraud
• Identity fraud
• Inheritance fraud
• Internet auction fraud
• Internet dialler scam
• Land banking scams
• Loan scams
• Lottery scams
• Mass marketing fraud
• Miracle health scams
• Money muling
• Online shopping fraud
• Plastic card fraud
• Rental fraud
• Romance scams
• Vehicle matching scams
• West African or 419 scam
• Work from home scams

If fraud has been committed, report it to Action Fraud.

Membership of Cyber Rescue gives Organisations unlimited access to the Cyber Rescue curated library of expert advice on cyber attacks, including:

• Attack maps, showing live reports of current cyber attacks worldwide
• Threat analysis, explaining the type and implications of various attacks
• Cost calculators, to help organisations estimate potential damages
• Response guides, including academic and government advice