More than a quarter of all cyber-attacks handled by Britain’s cyber-security agency in the past year involved criminals and hostile states exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report has revealed.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is a branch of the UK’s signals intelligence agency GCHQ, defended the UK from an average of 60 attacks per month during the past year, according to its latest annual report, which was published on Tuesday.
