Alexander Martin
China is “well on its way to becoming a cyber superpower” a senior British government minister warned on Wednesday, adding that it now simply wasn’t feasible to decouple from Beijing given the country’s role in global supply chains.
Pat McFadden, the most senior minister in Britain’s Cabinet Office, told the CYBERUK conference that Beijing had “the sophistication, the scale and the seriousness” to pose an exceptional national security challenge.
His comments were echoed by the head of the National Cyber Security Centre, Richard Horne, who said during the event that “the continued activity that we’re seeing from the Chinese system remains a cause for profound and profuse concern.”
Their pronouncements follow the United States expressing alarm over Chinese cyber operations. These have included a spying campaign, tracked as Salt Typhoon, that has been compromising entities in the telecommunications sector in the country. Cybersecurity agencies in Europe have warned about similar campaigns affecting their countries, although none have yet publicly attributed these campaigns to the Chinese government.
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