Namecheap Hosted 25% Fake UK Government Phishing Sites Last Year May 11, 2021 09:22 GMT
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According to the National Cyber Security Centre, Namecheap hosted more than a quarter of all known phishing sites that falsely posed as UK government web presences during 2020.
This number appears in the center s fourth annual Active Cyber Defence report, that boasts about how much digital filth it has removed from the internet. According to the NCSC, there were 700,000 scam sites spread across 1.4 million URLs.
It also came across sites impersonating Capita TV Licensing, the BBC s outsourced subscription sales arm, as well as the usual COVID-themed ones we ve all become familiar with over the last year – fake copies of the NHS Test and Trace app laced with malware.
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Gareth Corfield Mon 10 May 2021 // 08:30 UTC Share
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Updated Domains n hosting outfit Namecheap harboured more than a quarter of all known phishing sites that falsely posed as UK government web presences during 2020, according to the National Cyber Security Centre today.
This stat can be found in the centre s fourth annual Active Cyber Defence report, which boasts how much digital filth it cleansed from the internet. These included 700,000 scam sites stretching across 1.4 million URLs, or so the NCSC tells us.
It also encountered the usual COVID-themed ones we’ve all become familiar with over the last year – fake copies of the NHS Test and Trace app laced with malware – plus sites impersonating Capita TV Licensing, the outsourced subscription sales arm of the BBC. Email scams were also popular, with 26,000 being shut down after netizens flooded the NCSC’s email reporting portal wit