Most Serious Cyberattacks Against the UK Now From Russia, Iran and China, Cyber Chief Says
2026-04-22T13:24:13Z•daac5c2d4d7616b1aeecb3ae3bb4e76ba53f2d7abb63c7fa340519deebb2ab4b
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber developments: UK warns most serious attacks now originate from Russia, Iran and China and could scale if geopolitically involved; a new Lotus Wiper malware targeted Venezuelan energy sector, destroying recovery mechanisms and overwriting drives; Mirai botnet actors are exploiting a disclosed command-injection flaw in discontinued D-Link routers; supply-chain risk remains acute as teams struggle to operationalize SBOM/VEX data; Claude Mythos (AI) found 271 Firefox vulnerabilities (all plausibly discoverable by skilled humans); North Korean actors conducted macOS intru
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