Russia conducting daily attacks on UK 'from seabed to cyberspace,' spy chief warns
Anne Keast-Butler, director of GCHQ, said Russia's actions have prompted the agency to defend subsea cables and energy pipelines in British waters, disrupt Russian networks smuggling sanctioned technology and countering “reckless sabotage and assassination attempts.”
BLETCHLEY PARK, England — The head of Britain's cyber and signals intelligence agency delivered a stark warning Wednesday that Russia is conducting daily hybrid attacks against the United Kingdom and Europe, stretching “from the seabed to cyberspace.”
Anne Keast-Butler, director of GCHQ, called on businesses, government and allies to treat cybersecurity with ten times greater urgency, warning “we are at a moment of consequence where the actions we take and the partnerships we build are ever more critical.”
She spoke at Bletchley Park, birthplace of both GCHQ and modern computing, where a wartime team — three quarters of them women — “changed the arc of technological innovation and altered the course of history” by cracking Nazi Germany's ciphers.
Source: https://therecord.media/russia-conducting-attacks-on-uk-gchq-briefing
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