BELFAST - The UK government's cyber defence agency warned on Wednesday (April 19) of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine. Russia-aligned 'hacktivists' have carried out largely harmless online campaigns that have defaced prominent public websites or knocked them offline. However, some of those groups have been actively...
Russia-aligned "hacktivists" have carried out largely harmless online campaigns that have defaced prominent public websites.BELFAST - The UK government's cyber defence agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine.
However, some of those groups have been actively plotting ways to do more real-world damage, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre , part of the GCHQ eavesdropping intelligence agency, said in an alert. "We expect these groups to look for opportunities to create such an impact, particularly if systems are poorly protected," said the alert, which was released to the press at a two-day conference hosted by the NCSC and GCHQ in Belfast.
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