Spy Chief to Warn of ‘Relentless’ Russian Cyber Attacks on UK and Europe
Anne Keast-Butler will warn that Russia is scaling up hybrid attacks while Britain faces a narrowing window to stay ahead in cyberspace.
- On Wednesday, GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler will deliver her inaugural annual lecture at Bletchley Park, warning that Russia is "relentlessly targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust" in Britain and Europe.
- Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has escalated what critics call a "hybrid war" against Western countries; last year GCHQ reported a 50% spike in major cyberattacks targeting Jaguar Land Rover and Marks and Spencer.
- GCHQ has been "disrupting Russia's efforts to smuggle Western tech, fending off cyber attacks, and countering reckless sabotage and assassination attempts," while Keast-Butler urges action "from boardrooms to living rooms" to make cyber security "10 times more urgent."
- Keast-Butler will stress UK-US intelligence partnership importance amid strains under President Donald Trump's America First policy, with her speech marking the 80th anniversary of the 1946 signals intelligence agreement founding the Five Eyes partnership.
- China's rapid artificial intelligence advances have created what Keast-Butler describes as "the ground beneath our feet" shifting, leaving Western allies with a "narrowing window" to maintain technological edge as Russia escalates hostile activity in a "gray zone" below war threshold.
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By Associated Press - Britain and its allies risk losing a cyber conflict against adversaries like Russia unless citizens, businesses, and governments treat cybersecurity with far greater urgency, warns a top British intelligence official. Anne Keast-Butler, director of the communications intelligence agency GCHQ, will warn Wednesday that Moscow is relentlessly attacking critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains, and public tr…
Russia relentlessly targeting UK, allies in cyberspace, spy chief warns
Britain and its allies risk losing a conflict in cyberspace against adversaries such as Russia unless citizens, corporations and governments treat cybersecurity with much greater urgency, a UK spy chief is warning.
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Chief of communications intel agency says Russia is relentlessly targeting UK
A U.K. spy chief is warning that Britain and its allies risk losing a cyber conflict against adversaries like Russia unless cybersecurity is treated with greater urgency.
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