Great Britain prepares for a possible cyber war. The Secretary of Defense of the United Kingdom, John HealeyHe has warned that “the keyboard has become a gun of war” and plans a millionaire bombing with AI weapons and military piracy to the Russia of Vladimir Putin and other “hostile nations.”
According to the British newspaper the announcement occurs as part of a new cyber and electromagnetic command, aimed at coordinating the digital struggle in the country. In this way, the unit will lead offensive piracy operations and supervise a state -of -the -art technological system, valued at 1,000 million pounds sterling.
“Artificial intelligence, nicknamed a ‘death network’, will connect military systems in real time and form the backbone of the digital arsenal of Great Britain,” says the publication.
Healey has assured that the United Kingdom is improving its ability to attack “hostile states such as Russia or China.” “The cybernetic command is part of the establishment of new standards and the delivery of new authority behind the defensive and offensive cybernetics,” he said in statements collected by the environment.
“We are under daily attacks, more and more attacks,” he added. “This is the nerve center of the United Kingdom army that helps us defend these attacks. The keyboard has become a gun of war“, asserts.
According to the disseminated information, The details of the United Kingdom Cyber Arsenal are still “confidential.” “Similar operations worldwide have included digital espionage and implants of software capable of paralyzing industrial systems. ”
In fact, it is believed that “hostile nations, such as Russia or China”, “are behind an avalanche of cybernetic aggression aimed at Western powers.” In the last year, the Ministry of Defense of that country “He has supported the amazing figure of 90,000 cyber attacks, twice as much as in 2023”.
“This is a cyber war level that is continuous and intensifies and that requires that we increase our defense capacity,” Healey concluded. In addition, he added that, although the previous governments had discussed the importance of cyber power, “they had not promoted it in a way that integrated the efforts of the RAF, the British army and the Royal Navy.”
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