Chinese hackers using everyday devices to target UK firms, warns cybersecurity agency
Laurent H. — CEO & Founder CYBERR & HEELR
Chinese hackers using everyday devices to target UK firms, warns cybersecurity agency
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre says companies must step up vigilance to prevent espionage attacks
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and agencies in nine other countries have warned of persistent attempts by Beijing-backed groups to hack equipment such as wifi routers to launch cyber-attacks.
Known as “covert networks” or “botnets”, they typically target vulnerable equipment – for instance devices that have not had a software update or are old – as a base for staging activities such as surveillance and data theft.
The NCSC said the technique was used by the majority of China-linked hackers. Richard Horne, the centre’s chief executive, said on Wednesday that China’s intelligence and military agencies had an “eye-watering level of sophistication in their cyber-operations”. Speaking at his NCSC’s annual conference in Glasgow, he said: “We face more than just a capable cyber-threat but a peer competitor in cyberspace.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/23/china-cyber-hacker-using-everyday-devices-hack-uk-firms
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