UK MPS face 3 million email cyber attacks every month

From cybersecurity-insiders.com

In one of the astonishing surveys conducted by Parliament Street; it was revealed that the Member of Parliaments in UK were been targeted by 3 million email cyber attacks on a monthly note- a 60% increase in cyber attacks witnessed on a year on year scale.

Last year, the same survey revealed that the MPs in UK were been targeted by 1.3 million attacks from Jan- August 2019. That means, this year the attack scale has increased for multiple reasons, and that includes because of the increase in remote workforce because of pandemic, hijack of email accounts of MPs and some phishing attempts.

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