LONDON—The head of the U.K.’s domestic intelligence service, MI5, said the agency is doubling the resources it devotes to tackling threats from Russia, China and Iran—and faces a growing challenge from right-wing extremists, many of whom are teenagers.
The shift of emphasis comes after 20 years of focus on Islamist terrorism has crowded out other priorities for the agency. Yet, MI5 Director-General Ken McCallum said, Islamist terrorism still constitutes the agency’s largest operational mission and new challenges could arise as the U.S. and its allies depart from Afghanistan.
Mr. McCallum said Wednesday that the agency faces daily threats and espionage activities that predominantly come “in quite varying ways from state or state-backed organizations in Russia, China or Iran” that have to be managed alongside U.K. efforts at engagement with all three countries. The threats are against individuals, digital infrastructure and espionage that is focused on the government but also on universities and businesses, he said. He also cited efforts at disinformation and attempts to seek hidden relationships with public figures, “hack-and-leak operations” aimed at having a political impact and troll farms seeking to sow and deepen divisions in society.
Mr. McCallum said the agency had identified more than 10,000 disguised approaches by foreign spies on professional social-media sites that sought to manipulate people in the U.K. where people in high-tech businesses, scientific research and exporting businesses were all of interest to foreign spies.
Lol how am I smarter than these guys
'many of them teenagers' That's an accurate description of the emotionally stunted differently sane Libertarian GOP loving cabal that captured the Govt.
About a decade late, and Russia’s best asset is now in no.10, but apart from that,
SethAbramson How about that! Most those psychopaths that sound like kids on social media are in fact kids on social media. What will they do when they find out mommy & daddy aren't there to make sure they don't cut their own heads off?
Two generations later, we'll need a worldwide effort to crush right-wing extremism, again. Clearly, we learned nothing from our grandparents 🤦♂️
right wing extremist = any white guy with a gun who isn’t buying what we selling
Questions must be ask in relation to the: absence of dialogue &diplomacy in order to overcome existent frictions with Russia🇷🇺 China🇨🇳&🇮🇷Iran. It's evident that the confrontational approach from: US🇺🇸&🇬🇧UK is unproductive, endangering🌍🌏🌎Countries geopolitical stability&PEACE.
UK intelligence jokes of the year：1. Bus stop classified documents 2. scientific analysis of Hancock's camera
So.... any independent country & children How brave, so important What a big difference from the days of British empire So important to export values like abolishing school lunches for poor kids, criminalizing protest, legalizing rape/murder by cops.... Britain so inspiring
Haha people
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