235,000 scams removed thanks to UK businesses
Support from British businesses crucial in removing over 235,000 scams, new figures reveal
The sixth annual report from Active Cyber Defence (ACD) highlights success of a “whole-of-society” approach in preventing millions of cyber attacks from reaching UK organisations and citizens each year.
BRITISH BUSINESSES and citizens reported a suspicious email or website every five seconds in 2022, a new report from GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed (Thursday).
7.1 million suspicious emails and URLs were flagged by UK organisations and citizens via the NCSC’s free Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) between January 2022 and December 2022 – the equivalent of nearly 20,000 reports a day.
The reports, many of which came from UK businesses, contributed to the direct removal of nearly a quarter of a million (235,000) malicious URLs from the internet by the NCSC since SERS – the first service of its kind globally – launched in April 2020.
It took less than 6 hours on average for the NCSC to remove reported malicious URLs from the internet.
