Foreign Secretary speech to CYBERUK Conference
Checked against delivery version of the Foreign Secretary’s speech, given to the National Cyber Security Centre’s CYBERUK conference, Wednesday 12 May.
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It is a pleasure to be here.
As you’ll remember on this day, four years ago, computers across the NHS suddenly flashed up a red screen.
With an image of a padlock and the words: “oops, your files have been encrypted.”
There was a demand for a bitcoin payment, and two countdown clocks. One for when the ransom demand would be doubled, and another for when the files would be permanently destroyed.
UK to Help Vulnerable Countries Tackle Cyber Threat From China, Russia
Britain will invest £22 million ($31 million) to help vulnerable countries in Africa and the Indo-Pacific tackle cyber threats and to prevent China and Russia from filling a cyberspace vacuum, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Wednesday.
In a speech four years on from the WannaCry ransomware attack, which hit the NHS and affected hospitals across England and Scotland, Raab said that hostile state actors and criminal gangs are also using technology to undermine democracy.
Addressing the CyberUK conference, Raab warned that the clash between authoritarian and democratic states is “playing out very directly, right now, in cyberspace.”