UK infrastructure being targeted by hostile states, GCHQ cyber chief warns

Richard Horne, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (Ryan Jenkinson/PA) - (PA Archive)

Hostile states including Russia, China and Iran are increasingly targeting the UK’s infrastructure with online attacks, Britain’s cyber security chief has warned.

Richard Horne, head of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said around 75% of the more than 200 incidents affecting the UK’s critical national infrastructure over the past year could be linked to state actors.