{"id":34760,"date":"2025-05-07T21:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=34760"},"modified":"2025-05-07T21:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:50:58","slug":"%e8%8b%b1%e5%9b%bd%e5%86%85%e9%98%81%e7%a4%ba%e8%ad%a6%ef%bc%9aai-%e5%8f%91%e5%b1%95%e5%b0%86%e4%bd%bf%e8%af%a5%e5%9b%bd%e9%9d%a2%e4%b8%b4%e6%9b%b4%e5%a4%9a%e3%80%81%e6%9b%b4%e5%a4%8d%e6%9d%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/34760.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Cabinet warns that AI developments will expose the country to more and more sophisticated cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- According to Reuters, on Wednesday, local time, theU.K.<\/a>Pat McFadden, a senior minister in the Cabinet Office, has warned that with the AI<\/a> technological developments.Cyber attacks against the UK will become more frequent and sophisticated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Over the past few years.Companies, government agencies and other institutions in the UK are subject to frequent cyber-attacks<\/strong>In the last three weeks, Marks & Spencer, Co-op Group and Harrods, some of the UK's leading retailers, have been hit. In the last three weeks, Marks & Spencer, Co-op Group and Harrods, all well-known British retailers, have been hit, with Marks & Spencer's online clothing business still unable to return to normal. However, the companies have yet to disclose details of the attacks.<\/p>\n

McFadden, who is responsible for Britain's cybersecurity, said the government's latest declassified intelligence report shows that over the next few years, theAI Will Significantly Increase the Number and Damage of Cyber Attacks<\/strong>. He emphasized, \"We can only respond effectively to the escalating threats if we keep upgrading our own defense systems.\"<\/p>\n

Speaking at the CyberUK 2025 conference hosted by the UK's National Cyber Security Center, McFadden noted that last year alone the centerNearly 2,000 cyberattacks reported<\/strong>Of these, nearly 90 were major incidents, with 12 reaching the highest level of severity, and the number of the most serious attacks tripling from the previous year.<\/p>\n

McFadden believes that the recent cyber-attacks on the UK retail sector should be a wake-up call for governments, businesses and public bodies:\"Cybersecurity is not an optional luxury, but a basic protection that every organization must have.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

He also revealed that the government will launch a new cybersecurity strategy later this year and enact the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill, by which time the government can require businesses and organizations to further strengthen their cyber protection measures.<\/p>\n

1AI has learned from reports that the recent attacks on Marks & Spencer and Co-op Group were part of theTypical \"ransomware attack.\"<\/strong>, i.e., hackers break into an organization's system, encrypt the data and demand a ransom before agreeing to the organization regaining control of the system.<\/p>\n

Richard Horne, chief executive of the UK's National Cyber Security Center, has emphasized that he wants businesses to refuse to pay ransoms in the future, cutting off cybercriminals completely.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Cyberattacks against the United Kingdom will become more frequent and sophisticated as AI technology develops, warned Pat McFadden, a senior minister in Britain's Cabinet Office, on Wednesday, local time, according to Reuters. Over the past few years, companies, government agencies and other institutions in the UK have been subjected to frequent cyberattacks, with economic losses amounting to tens of millions of dollars and operations often disrupted for months. In the last three weeks, Marks & Spencer, the Co-op Group and Harrods, some of the UK's leading retailers, have been hit, with Marks & Spencer's online clothing business still unable to return to normal. However, the companies have not yet disclosed the details of the attack. McFadden, who is responsible for cybersecurity in the UK, said the government's latest declassified intelligence report shows that AI will significantly increase the number of cyberattacks in the next few years.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,552],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-34760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-552"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34760"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=34760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}