DUBLIN // European governments are increasingly apprehensive of Russian state-sponsored propaganda and hacking in their political and economic affairs, as US security agencies confirm Moscow’s interference in the recent presidential election. British prime minister Theresa May will chair a session of the national security council early next year to deal with suspicions of Russian cyber warfare, media reports said on Saturday. It came after the British government announced on November 1 a plan to spend £1.9 billion (Dh8.6bn) on cybersecurity.Warning of hostile “foreign actors”, Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that if the UK failed to act, “we …read more
Source: The National
