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National Cyber Security Centre UK hit by dozens of major cyber attacks each month

Britain’s security has been threatened by 188 major cyber attacks in the last three months, according to the head of the National Cyber Security Centre. The attacks threatened national security, nation-state actors conducted cyber espionage campaigns aimed to extract information on UK government policy on anything from energy to diplomacy to information on a particular sector. Ciaran Martin, former GCHQ cybersecurity chief, told The Sunday Times that the attacks are mostly from China and Russia. UK authorities highlighted a step-change in Russian aggression in cyber space across the years.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/56247/cyber-crime/national-cyber-security-centre-hack.html

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