The NCSC said the scope of spyware targets has \u201cexpanded\u201d in recent years, with bankers and wealthy executives increasingly under attack.<\/p>\n
U.K. cyber officials and government ministers will also use the CYBERUK conference to highlight a doubling in the number of nationally significant cyberattacks on Britain in a single year, pointing out the majority of incidents are now linked to attackers from nation states, rather than criminal gangs.<\/p>\n
Richard Horne, the agency\u2019s chief executive, will say companies that don\u2019t see cybersecurity as a priority are \u201cno longer just na\u00efve,\u201d but are \u201cfailing to grasp the reality of today\u2019s world,\u201d according to pre-released extracts of his speech.<\/p>\n
Countries such as China possess an \u201ceye-watering level of sophistication\u201d to attack other nations, he will add, warning the U.K. faces a cybersecurity \u201cperfect storm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mythos threat<\/p>\n
Chief among the threats is the emergence of frontier AI technology, which Horne will warn is “rapidly enabling discovery and exploitation of existing vulnerabilities at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n