Putin plant „physische Angriffe“ auf den Westen, sagt der Chef des britischen Geheimdienstes

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/14/putin-plotting-physical-attacks-west-gchq-chief/

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  1. **From The Telegraph:**

    Vladimir Putin’s Russia is preparing “physical attacks” against the West, the head of GCHQ has warned.

    Anne Keast-Butler, who was appointed to lead Britain’s intelligence operations last May, has used her first major speech to highlight the growing threat posed by the Kremlin.

    She said GCHQ was “increasingly concerned about growing links between the Russian intelligence services and proxy groups to conduct cyber attacks – as well as suspected physical surveillance and sabotage operations”.

    Given heightened tensions between Russia and the West, Ms Keast-Butler said Moscow was “nurturing and inspiring” groups of cyber attackers, and “in some cases seemingly co-ordinating physical attacks against the West”.

    Russia has long been accused of protecting cyber gangs that target Western organisations, allowing them to operate with relative impunity as they carry out sophisticated hacks.

    Last week, the National Crime Agency named Dmitry Khoroshev, a Russian national, as the person behind LockBit – a ransomware group that has stolen hundreds of millions of pounds from businesses.

    Royal Mail fell victim to a LockBit attack last year, as the Russia-based gang paralysed the postal service’s ability to send letters and parcels abroad.

    Prior to that, LockBit also targeted London-listed car dealership Pendragon, scrambling computers across its 200 sites and demanding a £60m ransom to unlock them.

    Speaking at the CyberUK conference in Birmingham, Ms Keast-Butler told an audience of cyber security and defence experts that “Putin has not given up on his maximalist goal of subjugating the population of Ukraine”.

    However, she added that UK support for Kyiv remained “steadfast”, with British spies continuing to bolster the country’s cyber defences.

    **Read more here:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/14/putin-plotting-physical-attacks-west-gchq-chief/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/14/putin-plotting-physical-attacks-west-gchq-chief/)

  2. Let’s fucking go. Buddy can’t fight one war, let’s start another with the actual hornets nests! Can’t wait to get this over with.

  3. At first I thought plotting physical attacks against the West was an incendiary allegation, and then I remembered that they deployed a deadly never agent inside the UK and realized we knew about this for years 

  4. I just dont get why Russia would do this now when they’re allegedly at their weakest since before the collapse of the Soviet Union? Just desperation and out of alternatives to remain a global power? Seems like flipping the table when clearly on the path to losing the game, and hoping they’ll come out of the chaos in a better position.

  5. >growing links between the Russian intelligence services and proxy groups to conduct cyber attacks – as well as suspected physical surveillance and sabotage operations”.

    Yeah, that wasn’t a misleading, click-bait title… But, The Telegraph, so what do you expect?

  6. He’s not going to do jack shit to the US. I’m more afraid of the Baltic States, and Europe.

  8. I’d caution that Sunaks speech yesterday was all about how unsafe the UK would be under Starmers leadership, and the telegraph is better known in the UK as the torygraph.

    There an election brewing, and all the tories have to cling on to power is fear. I’ll take this with a pinch of salt.

  11. And I thought he was gonna stop with some personal attacks😅😅

  12. Why is this world filled with so many chodes? Just go fall out of a window already.

  14. If they could wait like 20 days so I get out of conscription age I would be very happy. Waiting my entire adult life in reserve and then be conscripted in my last month would be a cruel fate

  15. Right fuck this, I’m gonna write Putin a very strong letter.

  17. Sensationalist headlines again…. “PHYSICAL ATTACKS!! THERE’RE GONNA BOMB US ALL!!!”…. blah blah blah “cyber attacks”

  19. I guess he’s getting sick of the West’s waning support for Ukraine.

  20. > proxy groups to conduct cyber attacks – as well as suspected physical surveillance and sabotage operations”

    A bit misleading of a title tbh. Because this is nothing new or sensational, they have been doing this shit for a decade at this point

  22. I wonder when will Europe fully hit the 3% threshold to protect themselves. Everyone gets to use America as it’s daddy long as y’all allow it. I’m for a dependent continent 🤞

  23. It’s a shame how one old useless codger can cause so much unrest for the rest of the world. He’s a relic. Why bother allowing him to impose his antiquated, and self-serving hissy fit on anyone else?

  25. We should do the same then, grant hackers completely impunity to attack Russian infrastructure.

  27. Russia attacks Eastern Europe and Trump’s savior rhetoric to stop Russia will be his platform. Feeble old Biden can’t stop Russia. Russia is in on it. Republicans are traitors. It’s all scripted

  28. Putin may think he’s invincible, but the West won’t back down in the face of physical attacks. Time to step up our defenses.

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