Cybercrime

Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 13 December 2018.

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Photo of Matthew Offord Matthew Offord Conservative, Hendon

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of global phishing attacks that target the UK.

Photo of David Lidington David Lidington Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was established in October 2016 as the UK’s technical authority on cyber security matters. It is not possible to monitor all of the phishing attacks on the UK. The NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence programme has removed 138,398 unique phishing sites hosted in the UK in the last 12 months and the UK share of visible global phishing attacks dropped from 5.3% (June 2016) to 2.4% (July 2018).

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