{"id":23558,"date":"2026-06-18T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/uk-critical-infrastructure-hit-by-200-cyber-incidents-in-a-year-agency-says\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:37:21","slug":"uk-critical-infrastructure-hit-by-200-cyber-incidents-in-a-year-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/uk-critical-infrastructure-hit-by-200-cyber-incidents-in-a-year-agency-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in \u2018ongoing contest with capable adversaries\u2019 and AI could add to threat <\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, according to the state cybersecurity body.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Horne, the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said hostile states such as Russia, China and Iran were increasingly targeting systems behind the UK\u2019s key services.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jun\/17\/uk-critical-infrastructure-cyber-incidents-ncsc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/19c476dd638da6f60e6992fbaf274ac485ba9f8f\/372_0_4423_3539\/master\/4423.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=30b3b7acda649a80d4dcecaf47539649\" title=\"UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says\" \/>Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in \u2018ongoing contest with capable adversaries\u2019 and AI could add to threat<br \/>\nThe UK\u2019s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, according to the state cybersecurity body.<br \/>\nRichard Horne, the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said hostile states such as Russia, China and Iran were increasingly targeting systems behind the UK\u2019s key services. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in \u2018ongoing contest with capable adversaries\u2019 and AI could add to threat The UK\u2019s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, according to the state cybersecurity body. Richard Horne, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/uk-critical-infrastructure-hit-by-200-cyber-incidents-in-a-year-agency-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}