Matt Ince

We track and monitor incidents of suspected Russian hybrid warfare.

And so these are acts of sabotage, subversion, provocations, disinformation, cyber attacks.

And we've seen a significant increase

global and regional powers are increasingly prepared to use hard power.

I'd also mention hybrid warfare, and particularly within the European context.

We track and monitor incidents of suspected Russian hybrid warfare.

And so these are acts of sabotage, subversion, provocations, disinformation, cyber attacks.

So last year, we saw a six-fold increase in the number of incidents recorded compared to the previous year.

And as of October this year, we've seen the number of incidents recorded surpass that for the whole of last year.

No, that's right.

And interestingly, NATO's chief of cyber operations came out recently and suggested that actually Russia may have actually supported or at least provided assistance to ransomware groups that recently conducted attacks this year against British retailers.

So Marks and Spencers being a good example.

AI in particular is enhancing the sophistication of cyber threat actors, both state and non-state.

And so whether it's through their ability to develop malware, conduct social engineering, or even to conduct and execute influence operations, their ability to do so is just growing by orders of magnitude.

And that's going to continue into next year.