Britain’s MI5 spy chief on Tuesday warned that Iran was seeking to target military sites in the UK, saying a suspected plot to attack a US-run military air base in September was “not unique”.
Scores of residents living near the base were evacuated on September 27 as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts descended on the rural area.
Police later said they had found gasoline, an accelerant, in the three vans, but no explosives, according to AP. He said his agency’s work countering state threats – chiefly from Russia, Iran and China – has quadrupled in the past decade, and claimed that both Russia and Iran are expanding their hybrid warfare campaigns against the UK, according to AP. He also warned that advances in technology were raising security concerns, saying artificial intelligence was “supercharging” the cybersecurity battle between attackers and defenders. McCallum said terror plotters have used artificial intelligence for reconnaissance and attacks, including AI-enabled drones. Even more concerning, he said, is “AI’s potential to change the stakes on existing or even new bioweapons. He said terror groups “would dearly love” to have chemical, biological or radiological weapons, but these are hard to obtain, according to AP.
