Security News > 2022 > May > UK cybersecurity center sent 33 million alerts to companies
The NCSC in the UK reports having served 33 million alerts to organizations signed up for its "Early Warning" service.
The government agency has dealt with a record number of online scams in 2021, removing more than 2.7 million from the internet.
The NCSC says the record number of online scams identified and removed is the result of expanding the defenses and not as much seeing an uptick in scam activities.
"The rise reflects the expansion of NCSC services to take down additional malicious online content, such as fake celebrity endorsement scams, rather than an increase in scams overall," explains NCSC's announcement.
Another notable case of mass takedowns is that of the Flubot malware for Android devices, which is distributed to smartphone users via "Missed delivery" SMS. The NCSC put a brake on its proliferation by blocking over 1.2 million domains linked to it.
As for the scams blocked in 2021 overall, the 2.7 million figure is four times higher than the corresponding number of scams detected and stopped in 2020.