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BBC blasted with over 250,000 email attacks every day
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Corporation ( BBC ) receives over a quarter of a million malicious email attacks every day , according to official figures .
Data revealed under the Freedom of Information ( FOI ) Act by the Parliament Street think tank ’ s cybersecurity team , showed that an average of 283,597 malicious emails were blocked by the organisation every day over the first eight months of 2020 .
On a monthly basis , the data shows that the BBC receives an average of 6,704,188 hostile emails classed as scam or spam . Additionally , an average of 18,662 malware attacks such as viruses , ransomware and spyware are blocked . Across the eight-month period of January 2020 to August 2020 , a total of 51,898,393 infected emails were blocked by the BBC ’ s systems . The highest month of attacks was July with 6,801,227 incidents recorded . Of these 6,787,635 were spam and 13,592 were malware . The second highest month was March , when the COVID-19 outbreak was at its worst in the UK . The BBC received 6,768,632 spam attempts and 14,089 malware attempts , totalling 6,782,721 .
Tim Sadler , CEO , Tessian , said : “ The global pandemic has become a ripe opportunity for hackers ’ phishing scams , and we can clearly see that reflected in the spike of malicious attacks on the BBC .”
EXTRAHOP ACHIEVES AWS SECURITY COMPETENCY STATUS
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