Head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre says Russia is ‘seeking to undermine the international system’Russian hackers attacked British media, telecoms and energy companies over the last year, the head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has confirmed for the first time. Ciaran Martin, the founding chief executive of the NCSC, declined to provide any further details of the attacks. “I can confirm that Russian interference, seen by the National Cyber Security Centre over the past year, has included attacks on the UK media, telecommunication and energy sectors,” Martin said. In July, a leaked NCSC memo suggested that the UK energy sector had been targeted and probably compromised by “state-sponsored actors”, but declined to name a suspect nation. Moscow was thought to be a “likely” culprit behind the attack, which simply attempted to guess the passwords to parliamentary email accounts.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 11:23 UTC