The UK government's cyber defense agency warned of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine
Russia-aligned "hacktivists" have carried out largely harmless online campaigns that have defaced prominent public websites or knocked them offline. However, some of those groups have been actively plotting ways to do more real-world damage, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre , part of the GCHQ eavesdropping intelligence agency, said in an alert.
"We expect these groups to look for opportunities to create such an impact, particularly if systems are poorly protected," said the alert, which was released to press at a two-day conference hosted by the NCSC and GCHQ in Belfast. The NCSC alert said such attacks, which typically require very high levels of technical skill and resources to carry out, would be "unlikely" to be achieved by hacktivist groups "without external assistance", but warned that they "may become more effective over time".highly classified U.S. intelligence documents
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