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Cyber warfare

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    UK facing ‘widening gap’ in ability to fight cyber threats, warns top agency

    Number of incidents at top end of scale of severity tripled last year, including attack that took down London hospitals

    A member of staff poses for a photograph at a workspace in the National Cyber Security Centre on February 14, 2017 in London
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Microsoft urges Trump to ‘push harder’ against Russia and China hacks

    Big Tech group’s president calls on new US administration to take tougher approach on state-sponsored cyber attacks

    Microsoft president Brad Smith at a summit in Lisbon, Portugal on November 12 2024
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    US says ‘Russian influence actors’ are behind viral election video hoax

    Clip purporting to show a Haitian voting in Georgia is among ‘Moscow’s broader efforts’ to sway the race, intelligence agencies say

    People walk by a ‘vote here’ sign
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Donald Trump
    FBI investigates claims China tried to hack Donald Trump’s phone

    Probe follows reports Republican presidential candidate and running mate JD Vance were targeted

    Donald Trump makes a phone call as he golfs at Trump National Golf Club
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Chris Miller
    Exploding pagers and spy chips: the rising risk of hardware tampering

    Unreliable suppliers can modify devices, yet companies devote few resources to verifying the origin of components

    The remains of exploded pagers
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Three Iranians charged with hacking Trump’s campaign

    US prosecutors accuse defendants of working for Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to influence the election

    Protesters walk past a banner featuring portraits of Qassem Soleimani
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders
    Cyber threats put pressure on in-house legal chiefs

    From war-gaming attack scenarios to dealing with new regulation, lawyers have a critical role in protecting the business

    Two hands typing on a laptop in a darkened room with computer screens
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    US seizes websites allegedly used by Russia to spread election disinformation

    Washington cracks down on what it says are Moscow’s latest attempts to meddle in the presidential race

    Merrick Garland speaks at a meeting of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force at the Justice Department in Washington, DC
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Iran was behind Trump campaign hack, says US intelligence

    Agencies say they have seen ‘increasingly aggressive’ activity from Iranian actors trying to influence election

    Iran flag
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Elisabeth Braw
    Exercises can prepare companies for the threat of attacks by hostile states

    Governments and the private sector should co-operate on action in national crises

    A French gendarme patrols next to a SNCF railway security officer at a railway station
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Iranians ramp up cyber attacks linked to US election, warns Microsoft

    ‘Covert news sites’ and phishing emails among tactics employed by Tehran-backed actors, says tech group

    Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) armed military personnel stand guard next to an Iranian Majid anti-aircraft missile system during the Ela Beit Al-Moghaddas military rally in Tehran, Iran
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Germany blames China for ‘serious’ cyber attack

    Berlin says Beijing behind 2021 hack on precision mapping agency

    Chinese president Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Cyber Security
    UK election body failed to protect voter data before Chinese cyber attack, says watchdog

    ‘Basic steps’ including updating passwords were missed before 2021 hack, finds Information Commissioner

    Montage of a Chinese flag and binary code
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Australia accuses China-backed hackers of breaching government networks

    US, UK, Germany and Japan back report alleging APT40 conducted ‘malicious’ cyber espionage activities

    File photo illustration shows a map of China through a magnifying glass on a computer screen
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    West grapples with response to Russian sabotage attempts

    Moscow has mastered hybrid warfare, covering its tracks when planning arson and other ‘grey zone’ attacks in Europe

    Montage of Vladimir Putin, a plane, generic arson pic, logo of GRU, Russian passports
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    China poses ‘genuine and increasing cyber risk’ to UK, warns GCHQ head

    Anne Keast-Butler’s remarks follow alleged Beijing-related espionage activity in Britain

    Anne Keast-Butler speaking at a security conference in Birmingham on Tuesday
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    Russian espionage
    Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn

    Assessments suggest Kremlin agents preparing covert bombings, arson and attacks on infrastructure

    Montage of map of Europe and the Kremlin complex
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    German politics
    Germany denounces Russia for cyber attack on Olaf Scholz’s party

    Foreign minister vows ‘consequences’ for 2023 hack targeting Social Democrats

    Annalena Baerbock giving a speech
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Chinese military
    Xi tightens grip on China’s military with new information warfare unit

    Beijing launches restructuring of armed forces as it challenges US dominance in Pacific

    Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in military uniform, visits the Central Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army of China
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    ReviewScience fiction books
    2054 — a sci-fi novel on the age of ‘non-order’

    Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis have followed their cyber page-turner 2034 with an equally propulsive biotech thriller

    A person with glasses is sitting in front of a computer screen in a dark room, with the screen’s blue light reflecting off their glasses
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Cyber Security
    UK trade unions hit by spate of cyber attacks

    CWU and Aslef have been targeted in past month as hackers home in on staff and members’ personal data

  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague

    Czech transport minister tells FT of ‘thousands’ of attempts to interfere with train networks and signals

    Concourse of Prague’s hlavní nádraží main station
  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    MPs challenge government claims China cyber attack was unsuccessful

    UK politicians targeted by APT31 group say they have found ‘tracker pixel’ emails still in their inboxes

    Palace of Westminster at night
  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Russian disinformation on Ukraine has grown in scale and skill, warns Berlin

    German diplomat says Moscow’s messaging combines greater subtlety and plausibility with automation

    Russian police officers walk along Red Square near the Kremlin
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    UK politics
    Sunak promises ‘careful’ crackdown in wake of China cyber attacks

    PM is facing pressure from hawks in his party to take tough action, while trying not to hurt trade links

    Rishi Sunak and China flag
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