November 10, 2015
Major cyber attacks that could cripple Britain’s energy supplies, nuclear power stations and defence industry have doubled in a year, GCHQ has warned.
Spy chiefs said Britain’s listening post was identifying 200 ‘significant’ cyber attacks a month – around seven a day – compared with just 100 a month last year.
Criminals, terror cells and hostile foreign states are using cyber technology to target critical infrastructure in a bid to bring chaos to the UK or steal the country’s industrial and military secrets.