British spies will tackle Russia’s cyber warfare hackers with new AI lab as Putin told ‘we know what you’re doing

BRITISH spies volition instrumentality connected Vladimir Putin’s cyber service with a with a caller AI laboratory designed to outsmart Russian hackers, a Cabinet Minister volition state today.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden volition denote £8m backing to boost Britain’s resilience against Russian hacktivists.

A caller Laboratory for AI Security Research volition bring unneurotic world-leading experts and quality agencies to find ways of amended defending UK cyberspace.

University boffins volition besides enactment with Five Eyes partners and the Foreign Office to guarantee Britain remains astatine the forefront of the “AI arms race”.  

Speaking astatine the Nato Cyber Defence Conference successful London, Mr McFadden volition state that the UK is already countering integer attacks from Russia, “both publically and down the scenes”.

He volition say: “Cyber warfare is present a regular reality. 

“One wherever our defences are perpetually being tested. 

“The grade of the menace indispensable beryllium matched by the spot of our resoluteness to combat it and to support our citizens and systems.”

His involution comes arsenic tensions with Russia are hitting fever pitch, with Vladimir Putin threatening to escalate the Ukraine warfare into a "global" conflict.

The Kremlin has lowered its atomic threshold, with Putin informing helium could target subject facilities successful countries supplying weapons to Kyiv.

On Thursday, Moscow besides utilized a caller ballistic rocket successful Ukraine, which Putin said was successful effect to the UK and US allowing missiles they person supplied to beryllium utilized to onslaught targets successful Russia.

While UK ministers won’t corroborate it outright, British-made Storm Shadow weapons are wide believed to person been utilized by Ukrainian forces successful attacks wrong the Kursk region.

Meanwhile, the US has greenlit its almighty ATACMS missiles for strikes heavy wrong Russia.