This is about real life some of these cyber incidents. 2.7 million online frauds were detected by the national cyber security centre in one year. that is the kind of scale thatis one year. that is the kind of scale that is enormous. that is people who are getting those text messages asking them to click on a link and then put in those payment details. it is affecting a huge amount of people are also criminal runs attacks. where local councils have had their computer systems locked which is meant they have been able to offer local services. these are the kind of incidents affecting daily life and there is a lot of emphasis on defence, to stop those attacks getting through and also working with the public in working with organisations so we are better prepared to deal with them if they do get through and to work out how to stop them. do get through and to work out how to stop them- to stop them. interesting stuff. thank you to stop them. interesting stuff. thank you for to stop them.
A daily onslaught of cyber attack from russia since the start of the invasion, and they have done a heroicjob at defending particularly their critical national infrastructure and it has been an honour to bring to bear some of our expertise in assisting them in doing that. so we are providing them with expertise, resources and hardware. and it is those three things combined that has allowed them to do an extremely good job at defending from cyber attack. of course, they have a long standing and deep expertise in this field. since 2014 they have faced a considerable number of attacks. 0ur security correspondent gordon corera is with me. hi, just tell us a bit more about what support that has been given here? , ., , ., ., ., here? this was a programme that was ste- -ed u- here? this was a programme that was stepped up immediately here? this was a programme that was stepped up immediately after - here? this was a programme that was stepped up immediately after the i
Stepped up immediately after the invasion in february. what involved was british expertise getting forensic help to the ukrainians to investigate and detect some of this onslaught of cyber attacks. some of those attacks were directed at taking down infrastructure that ukraine depended on, in other cases it was being used to spy and gather intelligence, even potentially about individuals who the russian might want to have targeted. so by providing this kind of help ukraine has been able to defend against their cyber attacks. a lot of people thought all the ukrainian systems would be taking off line, their power grid would be switched off through cyber war and their systems would be taken down. there have been a lot of attacks but on the whole, the most worrying scenario hasn t happened. partly because ukrainians have been able to resist much better than expected but also because of some help from allies including the uk here providing the £6 million programme which we have just learnt
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