The UK’s science funding agency is being bombarded with cyberattacks

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK’s national funding agency for science and research, has been hit by 5.4 million cyberattacks this year, six times as many as last year.

According to freedom of information requests from the Daily Express, 236,400 of these were phishing attacks designed to trick staff into handing over sensitive information.

Another 11,200 were malware attacks, designed to damage computer systems and steal data. The rest were logged as spam or malicious emails.

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