The UK and its allies face a narrow window to stay ahead of technology threats from Russia and China. GCHQ’s head will warn that cyber security must become “10 times more urgent” due to increasingly brazen adversary behavior. Russia is scaling up daily hybrid activity against the UK and Europe, targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains, and public trust. Russia-linked groups carried out cyber attacks on Poland’s energy infrastructure, targeting combined heat and power plants and an energy management system for renewable energy. GCHQ and allies must counter cyber attacks, sabotage and assignation attempts, and efforts to smuggle Western technology while supporting Ukraine. China is described as a science and tech superpower with sophisticated intelligence, cyber, and military capabilities, and rapid AI development is shifting the technological ground beneath them.
"GCHQ and allies need to fend off cyber attacks, “counter reckless sabotage and assignation attempts”, and attempts by Russia to smuggle Western technology, as the UK continues its support for Ukraine, the director will say. “Putin is going backward on the battlefield,” she is expected to say. The spy chief acknowledges that the pace of technological change is the highest it has ever been throughout her 30-year career in national security, and says that the UK and its allies have only a narrow window to stay ahead."
"“China is now a science and tech superpower - with sophisticated capabilities across their intelligence, cyber and military agencies,” she will say. The rapid development of AI technology means the “ground beneath our feet is shifting”."
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