The National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) Active Cyber Defence (ACD) programme removed more online scams from the internet during 2020 than in 2016-2019 combined, as it responded to a 15-fold surge in cyber crime and malicious online activity during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is according to the ACD programme’s fourth annual report, which has just been released ahead of the first-ever virtual CyberUK event beginning on 11 May.