Experts warns that If UK gives more sanction to Russia, there might be cyber attacks

Cyber threat on UK if Russia is given more sanction

Experts are giving warnings about cyber attacks if Russia is faced with more sanctions by UK, this came after an attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal. 

Relations between London and Moscow are at their lowest for 40 years following the targeting of the former spy and his daughter with a nerve agent.

“We cannot be agents of Russia by allowing them to view the UK as a safe space following an outrage that seems increasingly to lay at Moscow’s door,” said Professor Anthony Glees, director of Buckingham University’s Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies.

“We must retaliate by seizing all Russian assets, especially in London, but the Government must then prepare us for retaliation by Russia. In my view we will be hit by a cyber attack in the UK just as we’ve seen in France, Germany, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Estonia.”

Last month General Sir Nick Carter, head of the Army, warned that Britain was dangerously exposed to Russian cyber attacks, adding: “The time to address these threats is now.”

The poisoning of Mr Skripal is just the latest in a line of attacks which has seen Russia enter a new Cold War with the West.

Last night experts warned that, though Russian premier Vladimir Putin may not have personally sanctioned the hit, he has encouraged a culture which incentivises Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents to act on their own initiative.

“The FSB’s hallmark is the willingness to kill brazenly,” said Dr Andrew Foxall of the Henry Jackson Society think-tank.

“And it was Putin who, in 2006, forced a change in the law so that it could operate abroad. The FSB now acts with impunity because it has the protection of the Kremlin.”

Both ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died of poisoning in London in 2006, and Scot Young, a property developer who fell out with the Kremlin and was found dead on the railings at his Mayfair home in 2014, are just two hits on British soil likely to have been ordered by the FSB.

Source: express.co.uk