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Topics Phishing attacks using UK government themes more than doubled during 2020, with the largest number targeting the brand of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Its newly published fourth annual report on the Active Cyber Defence (ACD) service has also highlighted a big increase in phishing using NHS branding over the year. The ACD programme was introduced in 2016 and comprises a number of services to provide protection from online threats, including Mail Check, Web Check, Protective DNS, Exercise in a Box and the Suspicious Email Reporting Service. It identifies phishing – a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data – as the largest cyber threat involving the public sector. Its figures on takedowns of phishing campaigns show 11,286 for 2020, up from 4,471 the previous year, while the takedowns of URLs totalled 59,435, up from 25,741. ....
The findings were included in the NCSC s annual Active Cyber Defence (ACD) report, which was released ahead of the organisation s CYBERUK event this week. It reported a significant jump in the number of phishing attacks using NHS branding to trick victims, while the COVID vaccine rollout was used as a lure in email and text messages to gain people s personal information for fraud. Some 43 fake COVID apps were also taken down by the security organisation. The ACD programme also includes a Suspicious Email Reporting service which the NCSC said had been hugely successful since its launch in April 2020. The service received nearly four million reports of malicious emails from members of the public in its first year. ....
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