“Britain warns of large-scale Russian cyberattacks on the critical infrastructure of NATO countries Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden will state at the NATO conference about the threat of Russian cyberattacks on the critical infrastructure of Britain. Russia has already carried out at least 9 cyber attacks on NATO countries through hacker groups.”, — write on: unn.ua
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Pat McFadden, whose role includes responsibility for national security, is set to tell a NATO meeting that the Kremlin could attack British businesses and leave “millions of people without electricity”.
According to him, Russia is ready to attack British enterprises “to achieve its harmful goals.”
Given the scale of this hostility, my message to the members of the Security Council today is clear: no one should underestimate the Russian cyber threat to NATO. The threat is real
According to the BBC, he will say that Russian hacker groups are responsible for at least nine separate cyberattacks on NATO countries, including unprovoked attacks on critical national infrastructure.
The group is believed to be behind the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018.
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In the UK, a series of cyber attacks on several councils have been carried out in recent weeks – in some cases, the pro-Russian hacker group “unit 29155” claimed responsibility for them.
In September, a joint defense briefing by Western intelligence services accused “unit 29155” of carrying out attacks aimed at disrupting efforts to help Ukraine resist a full-scale invasion by Russia.
In his speech, McFadden will tell the participants of the conference that many of these attacks are carried out by gangs of “unofficial hacktivists” linked to the Kremlin, but they are allowed to “act with impunity as long as they do not work against Putin’s interests”, according to the BBC.
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