Britain’s military communication networks were subjected to more than six million cyber attacks last year, with a shadow war intensifying amid conflict in Europe and confrontation in the Far East.
The sustained assaults, on a daily basis, by hostile states and allied criminal gangs are taking place as the intelligence and security services report a notable increase in secret operations by countries like Russia, Iran and China, and when Vladimir Putin is forging links with a ‘pariah’ country, North Korea.
