The number of malicious spam or phishing emails targeting the inboxes of Westminster MPs has risen by 60% in the space of just a year to an average of 2,790,182 attacks every month, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request from the Parliament Street think tank.
In its disclosure, the government revealed it had seen a total of 22,321,459 malicious email attacks targeting MPs from 1 January 2020 to 31 August 2020. All these emails were successfully blocked, it added.
