UK cyber agency handling four major incidents a week as nation-state attacks surge

Britain’s cybersecurity chief warned Tuesday that the country is handling four nationally significant cyber incidents every week, with the majority now traced back to hostile foreign governments rather than criminal hackers, as the government unveiled a £90 million (about $121.48 million) package to bolster the country’s digital defences.

Richard Horne, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), told the annual CYBERUK conference in Glasgow that while the incident rate had held relatively steady since he first disclosed the figure last October, the origin of those attacks had shifted dramatically.

“The majority of the nationally significant incidents that my teams are handling now originate directly or indirectly from nation states,” said Horne.

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