In its four years of operation, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has worked hard to deliver on the government's mission to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.
Every year, the NCSC publishes a report/review of its operations. This week, it released its new annual report, highlighting that the agency has been called upon to address the multiple impacts of COVID-19.
Referring to the period between September 1, 2019, and August 31 protected the UK from 723 attacks cyber , 2020, the NCSC said it “ .” This means that on average it was dealing with around 60 incidents per month.
The following are the main points of the new NCSC report:
- The number of security incidents that have been dealt with is increasing each year (557 in 2018, 658 in 2019, 723 in 2020).
- Approximately 200 of the 723 cases treated this year were related to COVID-19.
- Over one million NHS IP addresses were scanned for vulnerability detection.
- services Mail Check and DNS, were deployed to 235 frontline health organisations across the UK, including NHS Trusts.
- The Suspicious Email Reporting Service allowed the British public to report more than 2.3 million malicious emails
- During 2020, 17,000 Cyber Essentials, which means there was a 20% increase compared to last year.
- Over 22,000 malicious URLs related to COVID-19 scams were removed
- The NCSC saw a 60% increase in the number of girls applying for CyberFirst over the summer. In total, 1770 children and teenagers participated in the program.
- 166,710 phishing URLs. In fact, 65.3% of them were removed within the first 24 hours of their discovery.
- Finally, more than 2950 new members were added to the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP)
Source: Infosecurity Magazine
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