NCSC reports on second year of cyber defence at scale

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre releases a report on the second year of its Active Cyber Defence programme to demonstrate its effects in the public sector and wider UK cyber ecosystem. A scam to defraud thousands of UK citizens using a fake email address spoofing a UK airport is one of a wide range of cyber attacks prevented by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a report reveals. The criminal campaign is one of the case studies in the NCSC’s  report on the second year of its Active Cyber Defence (ACD) programme designed to reduce the harm from commodity cyber attacks against the UK. In August 2018, the cyber criminals behind the campaign tried to send more than 200,000 emails purporting to be from a UK airport, which the NCSC did not name, using a non-existent gov.uk address in a bid to defraud people.