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London: During the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, hackers targeted more than 4,151 online merchants, stealing payment information and other personal information from customers, according to the National Cyber Security Centre in the United Kingdom.
Online scams soar by 1,500% as fraudsters and foreign agents exploit Covid and Brexit Kim Sengupta © Provided by The Independent Online scams soared by 1,500 per cent in the last year as criminals exploited crises from Covid to the chaotic aftermath of Brexit, a cyber security watchdog has reported. More such attacks were taken down by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the last 12 months than the previous three years combined. Hostile states as well organised crime gangs targeted government departments, businesses and the public in sustained hacking offensives, c...