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The UK’s science funding agency is being bombarded with cyber attacks

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK’s national funding agency for science and research, has been hit by 5.4 million cyber attacks 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…