The Times: British cyber weapons can paralyze hostile states

22 December 2017, 03:01 | Science and Health 
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"Britain has developed a cyber weapon of high complexity that can crush a hostile state," GCHQ (UK Government Communications Center) said on the background of warnings about Russia's increasingly aggressive attacks on the Internet, "The Times.

As reported to the Parliamentary Committee for Intelligence and Security (ISC), attacks on US central command, Twitter accounts and the French television network that looked like Islamist seem to have been a Russian "demonstrative demonstration of muscles," the newspaper reported..

As Moscow increases the use of its online arsenal, GCHQ, an intelligence agency based in Cheltenham, ahead of time developed a "full range" of weapons.

The GCHQ statement was made amid the visit of Prime Minister Teresa May to Poland with the aim of organizing a joint fight against Russian disinformation, the newspaper said..

The nature of the new countermeasures was not disclosed, but "the technologies being developed include the ability to malfunction the military aircraft, ships and missiles of another country and infect mobile phones to collect information and erase memory,.

The intelligence committee also noted that "Brekzit" complicates the work of intelligence services.

"Half of Europe is afraid of terrorism, and the other half is Russia, and both halves want us to help," said MI5 CEO Andrew Parker.

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