On 4 October 2018, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) levelled extraordinary accusations at Russia’s now-infamous military intelligence service, the GRU. This was an unprecedented announcement; the kind of coordinated, international response Ciaran Martin, CEO of the NCSC, had alluded to months earlier in the aftermath of the Sergei Skripal affair. The GRU had, over a period of years, waged a “reckless and indiscriminate” campaign of cyber attacks, it was alleged, and here was the proof. So ...
Cyber crime adds a powerful new weapon to the terrorists’ arsenal and it’s only a matter of time before they deploy it, argues cyber security expert Israel Barak, talking to defence writer Peter Jackson. Israel Barak was there at the birth of the cyber attack and went on to see it ...