{"id":1421,"date":"2021-05-10T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/10\/uk-covid-related-cybercrime-fuels-15-fold-rise-in-scam-takedowns\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T06:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:27:48","slug":"uk-covid-related-cybercrime-fuels-15-fold-rise-in-scam-takedowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/10\/uk-covid-related-cybercrime-fuels-15-fold-rise-in-scam-takedowns\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Covid-related cybercrime fuels 15-fold rise in scam takedowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccine rollout used as a lure via email and text to harvest people\u2019s personal information for fraud<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s cybersecurity agency has taken down more scams in the last year than in the previous three years combined, with coronavirus and NHS-themed cybercrime fuelling the increase.<\/p>\n<p>Experts oversaw a 15-fold rise in the removal of online campaigns compared with 2019, according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/10\/uk-covid-related-cybercrime-fuels-15-fold-rise-in-scam-takedowns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/990b51bebe75b49b7bf96eb7c2772035480a1dda\/0_118_3543_2126\/master\/3543.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f218f684c6743d716cccb61e111bfc30\" title=\"UK Covid-related cybercrime fuels 15-fold rise in scam takedowns\" \/>Vaccine rollout used as a lure via email and text to harvest people\u2019s personal information for fraud<br \/>\nThe UK\u2019s cybersecurity agency has taken down more scams in the last year than in the previous three years combined, with coronavirus and NHS-themed cybercrime fuelling the increase.<br \/>\nExperts oversaw a 15-fold rise in the removal of online campaigns compared with 2019, according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccine rollout used as a lure via email and text to harvest people\u2019s personal information for fraud The UK\u2019s cybersecurity agency has taken down more scams in the last year than in the previous three years combined, with coronavirus and NHS-themed cybercrime fuelling the increase. Experts oversaw a 15-fold rise in the removal of online &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/10\/uk-covid-related-cybercrime-fuels-15-fold-rise-in-scam-takedowns\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK Covid-related cybercrime fuels 15-fold rise in scam takedowns<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}