Hostile states behind three-quarters of attacks on Britain's critical infrastructure, cyber chief warns

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Multiple related developments indicate elevated systemic cyber risk: the UK NCSC warns nation-state actors are ‘prepositioning’ inside critical infrastructure and could use collected intelligence for kinetic targeting; researchers say GitHub ignored vulnerability reports that are now being exploited by variants of the Shai-Hulud supply‑chain worm to compromise hundreds of packages and developer accounts; the EU is giving Ukraine access to its cybersecurity reserve of incident‑response firms as integration progresses; Sen. Warner warns of CISA funding and staffing shortfalls and urges support/fi

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