Speaking at the Predict Europe cybersecurity conference, U.K. Government Communications Headquarters Director Anne Keast-Butler said the country’s security agencies are currently confronting the most “contested and complex” cyber threat environment she has ever seen, The Record reports. Keast-Butler said the U.K. has seen the volume of major cyberattacks quadruple over the past year. The attacks, she said, come from “all sorts of dimensions,” such as “states cooperating with each other” and general technological disruption caused by AI advances, which is lowering the technical threshold for cyber criminals to engage in attacks.
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