NCSC prevents airport email scam.
An attempt to defraud
thousands of people using a bogus email from a UK airport was one of a
range of cyber-attacks prevented last year.
The scam used a fake gov.uk address,
but the messages were prevented from ever reaching their intended
recipients. The details were revealed by GCHQ’s National
Cyber Security Centre in an annual report. In all, NCSC
disclosed it had stopped 140,000 separate phishing attacks. This refers
to the attempted online theft of bank details and other sensitive
information by impersonating a trustworthy person or
organisation. In addition, the agency said it had taken down 190,000
fraudulent sites.
Source: BBC
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