UK should be expecting cyber attacks anytime soon from Vladimir Putin's government MI5 chief warns

Theresa May and Vladimir Putin

After the blocking Russian's satellite from broadcasting from UK, head of MI5 has warned that Putin's government is "increasingly aggressive" and could carry out multiple cyber attacks on Britain.

Andrew Parker

Andrew Parker, the Security Service's Director General  claimed Moscow has ramped up its approach on foreign policy, propaganda and spying amid fears of a Third World War.

The Security Service's Director further said, the UK is desperately attempting to disrupt Vladimir Putin’s spies who were "at work across Europe and in the UK".

He said: "It is using its whole range of state organs and powers to push its foreign policy abroad in increasingly aggressive ways involving propaganda, espionage, subversion and cyber-attacks.

"Russia is at work across Europe and in the UK today. It is MI5's job to get in the way of that."

The spy chief told the Guardian: "You can see that on the ground with Russia's activities in Ukraine and Syria.

"But there is high-volume activity out of sight with the cyber-threat.

"Russia has been a covert threat for decades. What's different these days is that there are more and more methods available."

Currently the MI5 workers are 4,000 and planned of boosting it by 1,000 more workers during the next five years which will make it 5,000 officers in order to thwart cyber attacks on the UK.

He added: "We recognise that in a changing world we have to change too. We have a responsibility to talk about our work and explain it."

Mr Parker also said Islamic extremists from the ISIS terror group still posed the biggest threat to UK national security.

The threat level in Britain is officially set at "severe" meaning an attack is considered highly likely and the spy chief warned security services would find and stop most but not all terror attempts.

He said: "Today, the most visible threat is from terrorism and in particular that posed by ISIS or Daesh. Together with MI6, GCHQ and the police, MI5 has disrupted 12 plots in the UK since June 2013.

"ISIS is an enduring threat, here to stay, and is at least a generational challenge.

"MI5 and the intelligence agencies have good defences because of the investment made in our capabilities. We will find and stop most attempts to attack us, but not all."

Source: Express.................