British government hackers have launched operations against militants, state-backed disinformation campaigns and attempts to interfere in elections, the GCHQ spy agency said, in a rare statement on its offensive cyber work
The attacks were carried out over the last three years by the secretive National Cyber Force , a hacking unit operational since 2020 made up of spies and defence officials from Britain's armed forces and Government Communications Headquarters , the eavesdropping agency said in a statement.
The statement was published alongside a 28-page paper designed "to illustrate aspects of how the UK is being a responsible cyber power". It did not elaborate on the specifics of those operations. In 2018, GCHQ revealed a series of attacks it had conducted against Islamic State. Since its establishment, Britain has given little information about the activities of the NCF.
British government hackers have also countered state disinformation campaigns and worked to "reduce the threat of external interference in democratic elections", the statement added.
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