Russian hackers target Western critical infrastructure, UK warns

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned of a growing threat to Western critical national infrastructure from Russia-aligned "hacktivists" who are not subject to formal state control. While some of these groups have carried out largely harmless online campaigns, others have been actively plotting ways to cause real-world damage. The NCSC said that such attacks would be "unlikely" to be achieved by hacktivist groups "without external assistance", but warned that they "may become more effective over time".