UK's NCSC chief warns of AI attacks on critical infrastructure by 2028
Richard Horne, head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, presented the agency's annual report and warned that AI-powered malware is highly likely to feature in ransomware attacks against British critical infrastructure by 2028. The report names China as the most sophisticated and sustained cyber threat facing the UK, while both Russia and China are expected to routinely use AI for geopolitical ends; AI is expected mainly to scale and speed up existing attack tactics rather than discover entirely new vulnerabilities. Horne said business leaders who have 'got away with tech on the cheap' will have to explain the consequences if food disappears from shelves or the lights go out. For any company running infrastructure or services that matter to customers, the warning signals that cybersecurity planning now has to explicitly account for AI-assisted attacks, not as a hypothetical but as a national agency's working forecast.
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