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Russian-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted Ministry of Defence, government says | UK News


The British military is boosting its own offensive capabilities to conduct cyber attacks against hostile states like Russia.

Details of the foiled hack emerged as Defence Secretary John Healey said the UK military is bolstering its own offensive capabilities to conduct cyber attacks against hostile states like Russia. "The nature of warfare is changing," Mr Healey told a group of journalists on a visit to a secure facility in Wiltshire where the defence team that defeated the Russian cyber attack is located. The carrier strike group is expected to pass through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the coming days - well within range of an Iranian-backed militia that has targeted British and American warships and well as commercial shipping with missiles.

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