Police chiefs have criticised YouTube for broadcasting “tutorials” for cyber-criminals — and revealed that hundreds of extra officers will be deployed to tackle Britain’s soaring digital crime wave.
Andrew Gould, cyber-crime leader for the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), warned that people with “very limited skill or knowledge” were able to launch waves of attacks thanks to online videos that teach viewers how to plant viruses, hack servers and crash computer networks.
The former counterterrorism officer at Scotland Yard said attacks such as the WannaCry ransom, which crippled the NHS in 2017 and cost taxpayers £92m, were “done in a click” but take “months or years to investigate and prosecute”.
The criticism came as Gould disclosed that an extra £21m over two years will fund